James Wan Locks Second Series Order with Peacock

James Wan is expanding heavily into television, after major success in the film world, with the announcement of a second straight-to-series order from the prolific producer.

Peacock has purchased an untitled espionage techno-thriller from creator Thomas Brandon (Legacies). Wan will serve as executive producer through his Atomic Monster banner. The series will star Simu Liu (Barbie, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings).

The series is described as five minutes in the future, a first-generation-American intelligence analyst Alexander Hale (Liu) realizes his brain has been hacked, giving the perpetrators access to everything he sees and hears. Caught between his shadowy agency and the unknown hackers, he must maintain a performance 24/7 to flush out who’s responsible and prove where his allegiance lies.

The same production team is also working on Teacup, a contemporary horror thriller based on Robert R. McCammon’s Stinger. In the novel, during a single 24-hour period in Inferno, Texas, a town in trouble is driven to the brink by racial tension, gang violence, and a collapsing economy. But things can always get worse, and they do so with astonishing speed.