Apple Orders New Series With Cate Blanchett, Kevin Kline

<p>Apple&&num;8217&semi;s streaming service Apple TV&plus; has ordered &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Disclaimer&comma;” a new original series from Academy Award and Golden Globe winning director Alfonso Cuarón &lpar;Golden Lion Award-winning &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Roma&comma;” &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Gravity&comma;” &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Children of Men&&num;8221&semi;&rpar; through his production company Esperanto Filmoj&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Apple has been busy this year bulking up Apple TV&plus; with exclusive movies and shows to compete with other streaming services Netflix&comma; Disney&plus;&comma; Paramount&plus;&comma; HBO Max and Peacock&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The psychological thriller will star actors Cate Blanchett &lpar;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Don’t Look Up&comma;” &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Nightmare Alley&comma;” &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Pinocchio”&rpar;&comma; who will also executive produce&comma; and Kevin Kline &lpar;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Starling&comma;” &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Beauty and the Beast&comma;” Broadway’s &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Present Laughter”&rpar;&comma; who is making his series debut&period; Cuarón will write&comma; direct and executive produce the series&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Based on the novel of the same name by Renee Knight&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Disclaimer” will star Blanchett as Catherine Ravenscroft&comma; a successful and respected television documentary  journalist whose work has been built on revealing the concealed transgressions of long-respected institutions&period; When an intriguing novel written by a widower &lpar;played by Kline&rpar; appears on her bedside table&comma; she is horrified to realize she is a key character in a story that she had hoped was long buried in the past&period; A story that reveals her darkest secret&period; A secret she thought was hers alone&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The series will be the first project to debut from a multi-year deal with Cuarón&comma; who is developing television series exclusively for Apple TV&plus;&comma; and it joins Apple’s award-winning series slate&period; It also marks first time Cuarón has written and directed all episodes of an original series&period; Cuarón currently serves as producer on Apple Original Film &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Raymond and Ray&comma;” which is now in production from Apple Studios&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Disclaimer” is produced by Esperanto Filmoj and Anonymous Content&period; Academy Award winner Emmanuel Lubezki &lpar;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Gravity&comma;” &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Birdman&comma;” &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Revenant”&rpar; and Academy Award nominee Bruno Delbonnel &lpar;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Tragedy of Macbeth&comma;” &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Inside Llewyn Davis&comma;” &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Darkest Hour”&rpar; will serve as directors of photography on the project&period; Cuarón serves as executive producer alongside Esperanto Filmoj’s Gabriela Rodriguez and Anonymous Content’s David Levine&comma; Dawn Olmstead and Steve Golin&period; Blanchett executive produces and Renee Knight serves as co-executive producer&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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