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Paramount+ has released the first trailer and set the premiere date for Taylor Sheridan’s latest star-studded project, the spy thriller series “Special Ops: Lioness.”
Special Ops: Lioness Details
| Series Name | Special Ops: Lioness |
| Creator | Taylor Sheridan |
| Cast | Sam Asghari, Carla Mansour, Adam Budron, Nicole Kidman |
| Release Date | July 23, 2023 |
| OTT | Paramount+ |
The series, which is inspired by an actual US military program, will debut on the streamer on July 23. According to the official synopsis, the show “follows the life of Joe (Zoe Saldaña) while she attempts to balance her personal and professional life as the tip of the CIA’s spear in the war on terror,” per the official synopsis. “The Lioness Program, overseen by Kaitlyn Meade (Nicole Kidman) and Donald Westfield (Michael Kelly), enlists an aggressive Marine Raider named Cruz (Laysla De Oliveira) to operate undercover alongside Joe among the power brokers of State terrorism in the CIA’s efforts to thwart the next 9/11.”
Kaitlyn (Kidman) reports on the status of a Lioness mission to thwart a terrorist attack. Joe (Saldaña) lays out the overall strategy — find wives and daughters of “high-value targets,” place an operative near them, and then kill the target. But Cruz’s (De Oliveira) cover is apparently jeopardized, judging by footage of tense meetings and a spur-of-the-moment drone strike. “So we’re just going to pretend that a CIA quick reaction force did not execute a kill mission in front of CBS News,” Freeman’s character says. Ah, yes. What could go wrong?
Special Ops: Lioness Release Date
The first two episodes drop on July 23 on Paramount+. After this initial premiere, we’ll get new episodes on Sundays.
Special Ops: Lioness Cast
Based on the teaser and first looks, Saldana, Kidman, and De Oliveira seem to lead the show as the representatives of different levels of the Lioness program. Freeman and Kelly will be playing government officials, while Martin Donovan will star as Kidman’s on-screen husband. According to Variety, the rest of the Lioness cast includes Jill Wagner, Dave Annable, LaMonica Garrett, James Jordan, Austin Hébert, Hannah Love Lanier, Jonah Wharton, Carla Mansour, and Adam Budron. Oh, and Britney Spears’s husband, Sam Asghari, will play a character that Variety fittingly described as a womanizer.
Special Ops: Lioness Reviews
Movie theaters aren’t the only place Nicole Kidman comes to for magic. As Variety first reported in January, the face of the culture-shifting AMC Theatres ad has joined the cast of a new TV project. Special Ops: Lioness, a spy drama from Yellowstone co-creator Taylor Sheridan that follows different levels of a team that sends women around the world as undercover operatives. Zoe Saldaña will play Joe, the station chief who is in charge of training the Lioness program’s young recruits for on-the-ground missions.
The new generation of operatives includes a passionate Marine named Cruz Manuelo (Locke & Key’s Laysla De Oliveira), who hopes to take down a terrorist organization by befriending the daughter (1883’s Stephanie Nur) of a billionaire thought to be funding the terrorists. Kidman stars as Kaitlyn Meade, a CIA senior supervisor who manages high-ranking government officials played by the likes of Morgan Freeman and Michael Kelly. Here, is everything we know about the upcoming spy show, which is based on a real-life CIA program … one might even say it’s so true.
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The series is executive produced by Sheridan, David C. Glasser, Saldaña, Kidman, Ron Burkle, Bob Yari, David Hutkin, Wagner, Geyer Kosinski, Michael Malone, and John Hillcoat. It is produced by MTV Entertainment Studios and 101 Studios for Paramount+.
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