‘Lioness’: Zoe Saldaña to Star & Executive Produce Paramount+ Series With Nicole Kidman
During ViacomCBS’s Investor Day announcements on February 15, 2022, Paramount+ unveiled that Zoe Saldaña (Guardians of the Galaxy, Avatar) has been cast as the lead of the streamer’s upcoming drama Lioness.
The show from Taylor Sheridan also sees Nicole Kidman (Big Little Lies, The Undoing) board the project as an executive producer alongside him and Saldaña through her production company Blossom Films. Produced by MTV Entertainment Studios and 101 Studios, the series will begin production this summer, beginning in June with Tom Brady at the helm as executive producer and showrunner.
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Lioness is based on a real-life CIA program and the series will follow a Marine who is recruited to befriend the daughter of a terrorist in order to bring the organization down from within. Saldaña has been cast as Joe, a “strong-willed, hard-nosed, station chief of the CIA’s Lioness program.”
Joe is tasked with training, managing, and leading her fellow female undercover operatives working to assassinate the world’s most dangerous terrorists.
“I am a huge fan of Taylor Sheridan’s work and am honored to help him tell his next amazing story with Lioness,” said Tom Brady, showrunner and executive producer. “Taylor has created an epic, gripping, global spy thriller centered on a group of complex, strong women, and I can’t imagine anyone better to help bring these characters to life than fellow executive producers Nicole Kidman and Zoe Saldaña.”
Along with Sheridan — who helms Paramount’s other hits Yellowstone and 1883 — and Saldaña, Kidman, and Brady, Lioness is also executive produced by David C. Glasser, Ron Burkle, Bob Yari, David Hutkin, Geyer Kosinski, and Jill Wagner.
Stay tuned for more on the upcoming series as it continues to take shape at Paramount+.
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