Brie Larson To Star In Apple TV Series About An Undercover CIA Agent
By Ben Pearson/March 6, 2019 2:00 pm EST
We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Oscar-winning actress Brie Larson is about to go undercover. The Captain Marvel star will produce and star as a CIA agent in a new untitled drama series that Apple just secured in a bidding war. This is another huge “get” for Apple, which is about to reveal more details about its upcoming streaming service next month.
Brie Larson To Star In Apple TV Series About An Undercover CIA Agent
By Ben Pearson/March 6, 2019 2:00 pm EST
We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Oscar-winning actress Brie Larson is about to go undercover. The Captain Marvel star will produce and star as a CIA agent in a new untitled drama series that Apple just secured in a bidding war. This is another huge “get” for Apple, which is about to reveal more details about its upcoming streaming service next month.
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Brie Larson Apple Series
At twenty-one, she was recruited by the CIA. Her first assignment was reading and analyzing hundreds of classified cables a day from foreign governments and synthesizing them into daily briefs for the president. Her next assignment was at the Iraq desk in the Counterterrorism center. At twenty-two, she was fast-tracked into advanced operations training, sent from Langley to “the Farm,” where she lived for six months in a simulated world learning how to use a Glock, how to get out of flexicuffs while locked in the trunk of a car, how to withstand torture, and the best ways to commit suicide in case of captivity. At the end of this training she was deployed as a spy under non-official cover – the most difficult and coveted job in the field as an art dealer specializing in tribal and indigenous art and sent to infiltrate terrorist networks in remote areas of the Middle East and Asia.
This reminds me a lot of Zero Dark Thirty, although THR’s description of “a provocative and contemporary look at a young woman’s journey in the CIA, told through the prism of her closest relationships” makes it sound a bit more like Homeland or even Alias (but without all of that supernatural Rambaldi nonsense). Megan Martin (Animal Kingdom) is negotiating to write and executive produce the series.
Larson has had big roles on TV shows in the past: she starred on Raising Dad and The United States of Tara, and later had a guest run on a season of Community, but that was well before her big Oscar win and her subsequent rise to stardom. Apple has been scooping up major talent left and right and is supposed to be announcing more details about its streaming service later this month, so stay tuned for that.
