“One Day” star Leo Woodall and “Black Adam’s” Quintessa Swindell are set to lead a new thriller series for Apple TV+ titled “Prime Target.”
Created by Steve Thompson (“Sherlock”) and produced by New Regency with Ridley Scott’s Scott Free, the eight-episode drama follows a mathematical genius as he’s plunged into a troubling conspiracy just as he’s about to make a major computational breakthrough.
Woodall plays math post-graduate Edward Brooks, who’s on the verge of working out how to access every computer in the world via a unique mathematical pattern when he realizes an someone is trying to stop him. Swindell takes on the role of NSA agent Taylah Sanders, whose job is to watch and report on mathematicians with world-changing ideas.
“Together they start to piece together the troubling conspiracy Edward is at the heart of,” reads the logline.
Rounding out the cast are Stephen Rea (“The Crying Game”), David Morrissey (“The Walking Dead”), Martha Plimpton (“The Regime”), Sidse Babbett Knudsen (“Borgen”), Jason Flemyng (“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”), Harry Lloyd (“Game of Thrones”), Ali Suliman (“Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan”), Fra Fee (“Rebel Moon”) and Joseph Mydell (“The Eternal Daughter”).
Ed Rubin exec produces for New Regency alongside Beth Pattinson, Emma Broughton, Yariv Milchan, Arnon Milchan and Michael Schaefer. Marina Brackenbury is executive producer for Scott Free together with David W. Zucker and Ridley Scott.
Woodall is repped by The Gersh Agency, Anonymous Content, Hamilton Hodell in the UK, Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher and R&CPMK.
Swindell is represented by Gersh and Myman Greenspan Fox Rosenberg Mobasser Younger & Light LLP.