\n\tNia DaCosta will direct the first two episodes of the upcoming Amazon Prime Video series \u201cSex Criminals.\u201d She will also serve as an executive producer on the project. <\/p>\n
\n\tBased on Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky\u2019s comic book series of the same name, published by Image Comics, the series stars Imogen Poots as Suze, who is described as \u201ca normal girl with an extraordinary ability: When she has sex, she stops time. One night, she meets Jon (John Reynolds), who has the same gift. And so they do what any other sex-having, time-stopping couple would do: They rob banks.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tDaCosta is best known for her film career, having written and directed the films \u201cHedda\u201d (2025), \u201cThe Marvels\u201d (2023), \u201cCandyman\u201d (2021) and \u201cLittle Woods\u201d (2018). In 2026, she directed \u201c28 Years Later: The Bone Temple.\u201d In television, DaCosta has directed episodes of \u201cTop Boy\u201d and \u201cMs. Marvel.\u201d She is repped by CAA, Entertainment 360, Casarotto Ramsay & Associates, Shelter PR and Del Shaw Moonves Tanaka Finkelstein Lezcano Bobb & Dang.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cSex Criminals\u201d was created by Emily V. Gordon, Kumail Nanjiani and Tze Chu, who also serve as showrunners. Besides DaCosta, executive producers include Gordon, Nanjiani, Chu, Dani Melia from Gordon and Nanjiani\u2019s Winter Coat Films banner, Dani Gorin from LuckyChap, Fraction and Zdarsky. LuckyChap\u2019s Louie Hayes serves as producer. The eight-episode series is produced by Amazon MGM Studios.<\/p>\n
\n\tNews of DaCosta\u2019s hiring was announced ahead of Amazon\u2019s presentation to advertisers at upfronts<\/a> in New York City. The company also announced the greenlight of a new series called \u201cReality Retreat,\u201d<\/a> the Season 5 renewal of \u201cReacher\u201d<\/a> and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nia DaCosta will direct the first two episodes of the upcoming Amazon Prime Video series \u201cSex Criminals.\u201d She…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[18,117,19,17,128,203039],"class_list":{"0":"post-479903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-tv","13":"tag-upfronts"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}