Fantastic Four: First Steps helmer Matt Shakman has been tapped to direct the pilot and three additional episodes of Paramount+‘s Discretion, starring and executive produced by Nicole Kidman and Elle Fanning.
Shakman also will executive produce the legal thriller, from A24, which landed at Paramount+ last October in a very competitive situation with a straight-to-series order. Production is set to begin later this year.
Discretion is written and executive produced by The Husbands author Chandler Baker based on his fictional short story. In it, Lenny (Fanning), a summer associate at a prestigious Dallas law firm, uncovers a web of NDAs masking a dark truth. When she realizes she signed the same agreement, her discoveries put her in the crosshairs of the firm’s most powerful female partner Sharon (Kidman)—upending their mentor-protégé dynamic and raising the question: who gets to keep secrets, and at what cost?
The series is executive produced by Baker; Shakman; Susannah Grant; Kidman and Per Saari via Blossom Films; Elle Fanning, Dakota Fanning and Brittany Kahan Ward via Lewellen Pictures; Joe Hipps via A24-based Cut To; and Jordan Cerf via Linden Entertainment.
This marks a reunion for Shakman and Elle Fanning; he previously helmed the pilot episode for Hulu’s The Great starring Fanning and Nicholas Hoult, which got him a directing Emmy nomination.
Shakman recently wrapped the pilot and finale of Apple TV’s Wild Things, starring Jude Law and Andrew Garfield as famed duo Siegfried & Roy. He previously directed The Fantastic Four: First Steps and earned an Emmy nomination for directing the Marvel Studios Disney+ series WandaVision. His recent work includes helming pilots for Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, The Consultant and Welcome to Chippendales. Shakman, who is set to direct an untitled Planet of the Apes movie at 20th Century, is repped by Untitled Entertainment, CAA and Yorn, Levine, Barnes.
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