Jennifer Yale Joins Peacock’s James Wan/Simu Liu Project As Co-Showrunner

Denise Petski
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Jennifer Yale (See) is set as co-showrunner for the Untitled James Wan/Simu Liu project at Peacock. The original espionage techno-thriller was one of three Peacock dramas given straight-to-series orders, announced at the recent TCA winter press tour.

Yale wil co-showrun and executive produce with creator/writer/EP Thomas Brandon (Legacies).

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The Untitled James Wan/Simu Liu project, which stars Liu, is set five minutes in the future when 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.

Liu also executive produces alongside Wan, Michael Clear (Archive 81, M3GAN) and Rob Hackett (Archive 81, I Know What You Did Last Summer) for Atomic Monster. Danielle Bozzone will oversee for Atomic Monster. UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group, is the studio.

Yale is currently developing De La Resistance, a series based on the life of Josephine Baker with A24 producing and Janelle Monae starring/EPing, as well as The Butcher & The Wren based on the book by Alaina Urquhart for Paramount+ with Sister and Radio Silence producing. Jennifer recently wrapped on the Apple+ series, Your Friends and Neighbors, and before that was showrunning The Spire for Fremantle/Roku as well as JJ Abrams’ Subject To Change for Max. Previously, she served as writer/executive producer on Apple+’s See and Netflix’s Chambers in addition to being a writer on Starz’s Da Vinci’s Demons, WGN’s Underground, FX’s Legion and Starz’s Outlander. She’s repped by Brillstein, CAA for literary and Hansen Jacobson Teller et al.

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