Melissa Barrera & Sinclair Daniel Among Five Joining Peacock’s James Wan-Simu Liu Series

Melissa Barrera (In the Heights), Sinclair Daniel (The Other Black Girl), Brian d’Arcy James (Spotlight), Mark O’Brien (City on a Hill) and Kathleen Chalfant (Wit) have been set as series regulars in the still-untitled James Wan and Simu Liu thriller series for Peacock.

The upcoming espionage techno-thriller is set five minutes into 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.

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Barrera will play Michelle, a deceptive character who will keep everyone guessing; Daniel will play Parker, an intelligence officer who gets swept up into a new world she must figure out quickly; James will play John Moira, a boss and mentor who is not afraid to make tough decisions; O’Brien will play Cobb, an ambitious intelligence agent; and Chalfant will play St. George, a quiet leader focused on the long game.

Thomas Brandon (Legacies) serves as creator, writer and executive producer alongside co-showrunner and EP Jennifer Yale (See, Outlander). Wan (The Conjuring Universe, M3GAN), Michael Clear (Archive 81, M3GAN) and Rob Hackett (Archive 81, I Know What You Did Last Summer) are executive producers for Atomic Monster, with Liu also EP’ing. Mark Winemaker and Jet Wilkinson will also executive produce, with Wilkinson attached to direct the first two episodes.

UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group, is the studio.

Barrera is represented by Sugar 23, WME and Gang Tyre Ramer Brown & Passman; Daniel is represented by Nicolosi & Co., Entertainment 360 and Bloch Law; James is represented by Gersh and Thruline Entertainment; O’Brien is represented by Thruline Entertainment, UTA, The Characters Talent Agency and Lichter, Grossman, Nichols, Feldman, & Clark Inc.; and Chalfant is represented by DGRW and AMT Artists.

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