{"id":858625,"date":"2026-06-11T00:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T00:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/858625\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T00:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T00:09:11","slug":"matt-shakman-to-direct-discretion-with-nicole-kidman-elle-fanning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/858625\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Shakman To Direct &#8216;Discretion&#8217; With Nicole Kidman &#038; Elle Fanning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFantastic Four: First Steps helmer <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/matt-shakman\/\" id=\"auto-tag_matt-shakman\" data-tag=\"matt-shakman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Shakman<\/a> has been tapped to direct the pilot and three additional episodes of <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/paramount-2\/\" id=\"auto-tag_paramount-2\" data-tag=\"paramount-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paramount+<\/a>\u2018s Discretion, starring and executive produced by <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/nicole-kidman\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nicole-kidman\" data-tag=\"nicole-kidman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicole Kidman<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/elle-fanning\/\" id=\"auto-tag_elle-fanning\" data-tag=\"elle-fanning\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elle Fanning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tShakman also will executive produce the legal thriller, from A24, which landed at Paramount+ <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/10\/discretion-paramount-plus-nicole-kidman-elle-fanning-chandler-baker-1236568187\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">last October<\/a> in a very competitive situation with a straight-to-series order. Production is set to begin later this year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/discretion\/\" id=\"auto-tag_discretion\" data-tag=\"discretion\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Discretion<\/a> is written and executive produced by The Husbands author Chandler Baker based on his fictional short story. In it, Lenny (Fanning), a summer associate at a prestigious Dallas law firm, uncovers a web of NDAs masking a dark truth. When she realizes she signed the same agreement, her discoveries put her in the crosshairs of the firm\u2019s most powerful female partner Sharon (Kidman)\u2014upending their mentor-prot\u00e9g\u00e9 dynamic and raising the question: who gets to keep secrets, and at what cost?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe series is executive produced by Baker; Shakman; Susannah Grant; Kidman and Per Saari via Blossom Films; Elle Fanning, Dakota Fanning and Brittany Kahan Ward via Lewellen Pictures; Joe Hipps via A24-based Cut To; and Jordan Cerf via Linden Entertainment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThis marks a reunion for Shakman and Elle Fanning; he previously\u00a0helmed the pilot episode for\u00a0Hulu\u2019s The\u00a0Great\u00a0starring Fanning and Nicholas Hoult, which got him a <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/directing\/\" id=\"auto-tag_directing\" data-tag=\"directing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">directing<\/a> Emmy nomination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tShakman recently wrapped the pilot and finale of Apple TV\u2019s Wild Things, starring Jude Law and Andrew Garfield as famed duo Siegfried &amp; Roy. He previously directed The Fantastic Four: First Steps and earned an Emmy nomination for directing the Marvel Studios Disney+ series\u00a0WandaVision. His recent work includes helming pilots for\u00a0Monarch: Legacy of Monsters,\u00a0The Consultant\u00a0and\u00a0Welcome to Chippendales.\u00a0Shakman, who is set to direct an untitled\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/planet-of-the-apes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Planet of the Apes<\/a>\u00a0movie at 20th Century, is repped by Untitled Entertainment, CAA and Yorn, Levine, Barnes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fantastic Four: First Steps helmer Matt Shakman has been tapped to direct the pilot and three additional episodes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":858626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[350314,145619,1051,171,52731,1046,15329,173,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-858625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-directing","tag-discretion","tag-elle-fanning","tag-entertainment","tag-matt-shakman","tag-nicole-kidman","tag-paramount","tag-tv","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}