{"id":310475,"date":"2025-10-17T10:24:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T10:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/310475\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T10:24:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T10:24:16","slug":"nicole-kidman-elle-fanning-to-star-in-dallas-set-legal-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/310475\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicole Kidman, Elle Fanning to star in Dallas-set legal thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nicole Kidman<\/a> and Elle Fanning are set to star in an upcoming legal thriller based on an unpublished short story from Dallas-born author Chandler Baker.<\/a> <\/p>\n

\u201cLenny (Fanning), a summer associate at a prestigious Dallas law firm, uncovers a web of NDAs masking a dark truth,\u201d reads the series\u2019 logline obtained by Variety. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen she realizes she signed the same agreement, her discoveries put her in the crosshairs of the firm\u2019s most powerful female partner Sharon (Kidman) \u2014 upending their mentor-prot\u00e9g\u00e9 dynamic and raising the question: Who gets to keep secrets, and at what cost?\u201d <\/p>\n

Production on Discretion, an A24-backed series, is expected to begin in 2026. If the thriller were to film in North Texas, it would mark a return to the area for Kidman, who also stars in Taylor Sheridan\u2019s Lioness<\/a>. The spy show has recently filmed in Fort Worth and may have filmed in downtown Dallas as well. <\/p>\n

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Baker, a former corporate attorney, lived in Lake Highlands until she was 10. She has used Dallas as a fictional milieu before. Her 2019 book<\/a>, Whisper Network, is a murder mystery set in the legal department of a Dallas sports firm during the #MeToo era. <\/p>\n

Although none of the events in the novel happened to her, she told The Dallas Morning News, she said she could not have written it without having worked at a law firm and having been \u201ca working woman and a working mom in the current climate.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Several of Baker\u2019s stories are being adapted for the big and little screen. A movie based on her short story Oh. What. Fun. will stream Dec. 3 on Prime Video, with stars including Michelle Pfeiffer and Eva Longoria. Kristen Wiig is also set to produce and act in a project based on Baker\u2019s 2021 novel, The Husbands. <\/p>\n

\"This<\/a>Journey to Middle Earth (and back again): \u2018Lord of the Rings\u2019 cast to reunite in Dallas <\/a><\/p>\n

To celebrate 25 years, cast members from \u2018The Lord of the Rings\u2019 film adaptation will reunite at Fan Expo Dallas in 2026.<\/p>\n

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