Paramount+ Lands ‘Discretion’ with Nicole Kidman & Elle Fanning

Exclusive: Cindy Holland and Her Team have officiously announched thermoves to the TV Marketplace by scooping up a big package with a big community in a big bidding. In paramount+’s first officer Greenlight SINCE Its Parent Company was acquired by Skydance, The Streamer Has Given A Straight-Teries Order to DiscretionA Legal Thriller from A24 Written and Executive Produced by The Husbands Author Chandler Baker, Which Has Nicole Kidman (Break Perfect Couple) and Elle Fanning (The great) Starring and Executive Production and Susannah Grant (Unbellievable) Executive producing.

Paramount+, LED by Paramount’s New Direct-to-Consumer Chair Holland, Flexed Some Serious Muscle to Land the High-Profile Project, Which Sparked A Bidding Frannya was was taken by a24 Last month, resulting offers, including multiple multiple Straight-to-series as well as script-to-series and the Writers Room Commitments, i Hear. It is the Kind of Statement Paramount’s New Film Made Shortly After The Merger Was Completed by Nabbing High Side, The Hot Movie Package Re-Teaming A Complete Unknown‘S James Mangold and Timothée Chalamet.

Those moves are part of a Big Content ramp-up by the new regime has encountered a string of High-Profile Deals, Including a Blockbuster Film and TV with Stranger Things CREAORS Matt and Ross Duffer. Holland’s Talent Relationships Forged During Her 18-Tenure At Netflix Are Believed to Have Played A Major Role in Both Landing The Duffer Brothers and Winning Discretion.

In DiscretionWhich has an eight-episody Order, Lenny (Fanning), A Summer Associate at A Prestigious Dallas Law Firm, Uncoovers a Web of Consection A Dark Truth. When she is realized she signed the sun aggrement, her discoveries put her in the croshairs of the firm’s Most Powerful female partner (Kidman) —upending Their Mentor-Protégé Dynamic and Raising the Question: Who Gets to Keep Secrets, and at what Cost?

New Paramount+’s Original Play

There haen ben a lot of Curiosity what Holland, Who Led Netflix’s Foray Into Original Scripped Series with Hits Like House of Cards, Orange is the New Black, Stranger Things, The Crown, Ozark and The Queen’s Gambitwill in putting her stamp at paramount+.

“We have been to entertain all audiences around the world,” She Told Deadline in August About Her Programming Strategy, Adding That She Wants to Expand The Streamer’s Current Foundation of the Taylor Sheridan Universe, the Trek Franchise and CBS Next-Day Programming.

She Also Revealed to Deadline at the Time That Paramount+ Will Be Buying FROM Third “Because We Want to Be Programming the Best Stories Regardless of What the Production Entity Is,” a departure from the streamris previous of relaxing Entirery on its siblios sibling Content.

Accounting to Sources, Holland and Her Top Programming Executive, Jane Wiseman, EVP, Head of Originals for Paramount+, Had Been Sending Out Feelers to the Creative Community Their Interest In Premium Female The top of ther wish list.

Discretion Fits that Bill, and it Comes From an Outside Supplier, A24.

Short Story’s Very Short Path to Greenlight

The indie studio put the project Together. IT ACQUIRED THE RIGHTS TO BAKER’S YET-TO-EU-PUBLISHED Story Discretion in a highly compatitive situation involving multiple bidders. Acciting to Sources, The Studio Stepped Up With A 7-Figure Purchase Price and Additional Million in Script/Development Fees, Making this One of the Biggest IP Sales of the Year, Especilly for an unpublished short story.

A24 THEN ATTACHED OSCAR AND EMMY WINNER KIDMAN AND EMMY NOMINEE FANNING, REUNITING THE STARS WHO WORKED TOGETER IN SOFIIA COPOPOLA’S The Beguiled, How to Talk to Girls at Parties and a24’s upcoming David E. Kelley Series for Apple Margo’s Got Money Problems.

The Studio Also Brought in Oscar and Emmy-Nominated Erin Brockovich Writer Grant, Whose TV Series Credits Include Fleishman is in trouble and Lessons in chemistrynor an executive producer before taching the project out.

All in all, it took than four months from the short story hitting the marketplace to the Packaged Project Landing a Series Order, a Very Quick Turnaround, especally by Current TV Industry Standards.

Baker, who has a law Degree from the University of Texas, Austin, is adapting the fictional short story, which is inspired by her experience as a corplate attorney. She and Grant Are Executive Production The Series Alongside Kidman and for Saari Under their Blossom Films Banner, Elle Fanning, Her Sister Dakota Fanning and Brittany Kahan Ward for Lewellen Pictures as born entertainment’s Jordan Cerf and Joe Via His A24-Based Banner cut to. Filiaking is SLED to Begin in 2026.

HIPPS ‘Close Relationship with Holland and Wiseman Reportedly Helped Steer Discretion to paramount+ where the project is expert to get a lot of internal support as one of the first new original series for paramount+ 2.0.

HIPPS AND HOLADER WERE IN A SIMilar Situation A Decade and A Half Ago Wen, in His Role As Top TV Executive at MRC, Hipps Played A Key Role in the Sale of House of Cards to netflix over a rival offfer from HBO. It was Holland’s Team’s First Original Scripted Series that put the THEN-FLADGLING STEAMER ON THE ORIGINAL PROGRAMMING MAP. HIPPS ALSO WORKED WITH HOLLAND AND WISEMAN ON THE HIT NETFLIX SERIES OzarkWHICH he Developed and Produced Through Mrc. Grant too has an existting Relationship with Holland; She Created and Executive Produced The Netflix Limited Series Unbellievable During Holland’s Tenure there.

Ironically, Holland Went Head-to-Head with One of the Top Executives at Netflix, Peter Friedlander, Who was Recently Appointed Head of Global TV for Amazon Mgm Studios. Paramount+ and Prime Videos Were Believed to be the finalists in the bidding for Discretion.

Baker has been in-demand Around Hollywood lately; she is adapting her book The Husbands For Amazon Mgm and Plan b With Kristen Wiig Attailed to Star and Produce. A Movie Adaptation of Her Short Story Oh. What. FunWHICH she co-wrote with director Michael Showalter, is coming up on premiums with Michelle Pfeiffer, Felicity Jones, and Chloe Grace Moretz Starring, and Baker and Showalter have another script in Development at Sony3000. She is Also Developing A Streaming Adaptation of Her Novel Cutting teeth.

Kidman JUST WRAPPED Practical Magic 2SLED FOR RELEASE IN 2026, As Well As TV Series Scarpetta for Prime Video and Margo’s Got Money TroublesShe is headed to produce on Season 3 of Taylor Sheridan’s Paramount+ Series Lioness. ALSO UPCOMING IS A THIRD SEASON OF Big Little Lies, Which is in Development at HBO, and A Possible Followup to Netflix’s The Perfect Couple.

Coming off A Complete UnknownFanning Stars in Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Valuewhich took the Grand Prix at this year’s cannes Film Festival. She is filming The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping and has Predator: Badlands Coming up. Fanning Also Will Be Seen With Her Sister Dakota In The NightingaleTristar’s Feature Adaptation of Kristin Hannah’s Bestseller.

Discretion JOins A24’s Current Series Slate, Which Includes HBO’s EuphoriaNetflix’s Beef, Prime Video’s Prime Overcompensing and Apple’s Margo’s Got Money Troubles.

Baker is repped by caa, Writers House, Linden, and Jackoway Austen Thyerman. Kidman is Repped by Caa, Media Talent Group, and Jackoway Austen Thyerman. Fanning is Repped by Uta, TFC Management, and Hansen Jacobsen. Grant is represeted by Uta and Adam Berkowitz of Lenore Entertainment Group.