Academy Award winner Octavia Spencer (“Truth Be Told,” “The Help,” “Hidden Figures”) and Emmy winner Hannah Waddingham (“Ted Lasso,” “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning: Part Two,” “The Fall Guy”) are set to executive produce and star in a new untitled action adventure series for Prime Video.
The eight-episode series, which is based on an original pitch from creator and executive producer Tessa Coates (“Feel Good,” “Ladhood”), follows two best friends, Judith (Waddingham) and Debbie (Spencer), who know almost everything about each other.
Judith has been living a double life that Debbie knows nothing about: she is a highly trained assassin. When a hit goes horribly wrong, Judith and Debbie must go on the run together and work to repair their broken friendship—all while being targeted by a mysterious enemy who wants them dead. And only together, can they solve this layered mystery.
The series is the first project produced by Skydance Television under its first-look deal with Octavia Spencer’s production company Orit Entertainment. Andy and Barbara Muschietti’s Double Dream also serves as a producer on the series.
In addition to Coates, Spencer, Waddingham and the Muschiettis, the project is executive produced by Brian Clisham and Stephanie Kluft for Orit Entertainment, Irene Yeung for Double Dream and David Ellison Dana Goldberg, and Matt Thunell for Skydance Television. Mark Mikutowicz and Blair Bigelow developed the project for Skydance.
The series is the latest collaboration between Skydance Television, Amazon MGM Studios and Prime Video, following the hit series “Reacher” and “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan,” as well as the upcoming “Cross.”
More to come…
