Paramount+‘s authorized thriller Discretion already has two A-list stars in Nicole Kidman and Elle Fanning. The sequence has now lined up a big-name director too.
Matt Shakman (Implausible 4: First Steps, WandaVision) has signed on to direct the primary 4 episodes of the sequence from A24. The Emmy nominee may also be an government producer of Discretion.
Paramount+ landed Discretion in October 2025 with a straight-to-series order following a bidding warfare for the venture, which is based on a short story by Chandler Baker. The drama was the primary huge sequence greenlight for Paramount direct-to-consumer chief Cindy Holland, who formally joined the corporate after the Skydance acquisition.
Discretion stars Fanning as Lenny, a summer season affiliate at an enormous regulation agency in Dallas who “uncovers a web of NDAs masking a dark truth,” the present’s logline reads. “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?”
Shakman and Fanning beforehand labored collectively on The Nice at Hulu: He directed that present’s pilot, incomes his first of three profession Emmy nominations.
Baker is writing and government producing Discretion. Additionally exec producing are Susannah Grant (Unbelievable, Erin Brockovich); Elle Fanning, Dakota Fanning and Brittany Kahan Ward of Lewellen Photos; Kidman and Per Saari for Blossom Movies; Jordan Cerf of Linden Leisure; Joe Hipps of A24-based Reduce To; and Shakman.
Shakman has a protracted, eclectic record of TV directing credit that features episodes Succession, Recreation of Thrones, It’s All the time Sunny in Philadelphia and Mad Males, amongst others. He was additionally Emmy-nominated for steering WandaVision and shared within the Marvel/Disney+ present’s 2021 nod for greatest restricted or anthology sequence. He just lately helmed the pilot and finale for Apple TV’s upcoming Wild Issues, starring Jude Regulation and Andrew Garfield. On deck for Shakman is a brand new Planet of the Apes movie for twentieth Century Studios, re-teaming with Implausible 4: First Steps co-writer Josh Friedman.
