Prime Video has launched the primary trailer for Amazon Studios’ upcoming spy thriller motion collection Citadel, which comes from government producers Joe and Anthony Russo. The film stars Richard Madden (Eternals) and Priyanka Chopra Jonas (Quantico) as two secret brokers who’ve had their minds wiped, and so they discover themselves on a globe-trotting mission to cease the rise of a shadowy new world order.
This seems like an incredible collection with high-quality manufacturing worth. Right here’s the synopsis:
Eight years in the past, Citadel fell. The unbiased international spy company — tasked to uphold the protection and safety of all individuals — was destroyed by operatives of Manticore, a strong syndicate manipulating the world from the shadows. With Citadel’s fall, elite brokers Mason Kane (Madden) and Nadia Sinh (Chopra Jonas) had their recollections wiped as they narrowly escaped with their lives. They’ve remained hidden ever since, constructing new lives beneath new identities, unaware of their pasts.
Till one night time, when Mason is tracked down by his former Citadel colleague, Bernard Orlick (The Inside Man‘s Stanley Tucci), who desperately wants his assist to stop Manticore from establishing a brand new world order. Mason seeks out his former associate, Nadia, and the 2 spies embark on a mission that takes them world wide in an effort to cease Manticore, all whereas contending with a relationship constructed on secrets and techniques, lies, and a dangerous-yet-undying love.
The collection additionally stars Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread, The Crown) as Dahlia Archer, the British Ambassador to the USA, whose loyalties might lie elsewhere. Extremely crafty and impressive, Archer is each a useful asset and a formidable foe.
Citadel is the primary in what Amazon calls “the start of an unique landmark universe-slash-franchise with interconnected tales traversing the globe. Every Citadel collection is regionally created, produced, and filmed in-region to type a definite international franchise, with companion spin-off collection already underway in Italy and India with worldwide stars Matilda De Angelis (The Undoing), Varun Dhawan (Bawaal), and Samantha Ruth Prabhu (The Household Man).”
The challenge has develop into one of the vital costly reveals ever produced with a price range of over $200 million. This has been a ardour challenge for Amazon Studios head Jennifer Salke, who was in search of a giant challenge to make waves, and this one is an “Avengers-style spy present, with spies from key international locations who come collectively for the last word mission.” The plan additionally included spinoffs that might see the spy characters “having their very own adventures on their house turf. India, Italy and Mexico.”
The six-episode first season of Citadel will launch its first two episodes on April twenty eighth on Amazon Prime Video, with subsequent episodes rolling out weekly on Fridays by way of Could twenty sixth. Watch the trailer and inform us what you suppose!
