Nicole Kidman, Elle Fanning and Chandler Baker Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images; Cindy Ord/Getty Images; Jenna McElroy Share on Facebook Share on X Share to Flipboard Send an Email Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Print the Article Post a Comment Logo text Paramount+ has made its first big series pickup under its new leadership, landing a legal thriller called Discretion with Nicole Kidman and Elle Fanning set to star and executive produce. The streamer won a bidding war for the project, which comes from A24 and has only been on the market for a few weeks, with a straight-to-series order. The pickup is the first major green light for new Paramount streaming head Cindy Holland, the former Netflix executive who joined the company after the Skydance merger closed (she had been an adviser to Skydance in the lead-up to the deal). Discretion is based on a short story by best-selling author Chandler Baker, who will also write the adaptation. Plot details are being kept under wraps, but the Dallas-set story is based on Baker's experience as a corporate lawyer. Baker and Susannah Grant (Unbelievable, Erin Brockovich) are executive producing Discretion with Elle Fanning, Dakota Fanning and Brittany Kahan Ward of Lewellen Pictures; Kidman and Per Saari for Blossom Films; Jordan Cerf; and Joe Hipps, via his A24-based Cut To company. The show is a reunion for Kidman, Fanning and A24, who are also behind the upcoming Apple TV+ series Margo's Got Money Troubles. It's also something of a full-circle moment for Holland and Hipps, who was an executive at MRC when it sold House of Cards to Netflix to kickstart that company's original series slate. Deadline first reported the news. THR Newsletters Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day Subscribe Sign Up Murder Most Unladylike 'Murder Most Unladylike' Books to Be Adapted for TV Live Feed Charlie Hunnam and 'Monster' Cast Address 'Ed Gein' Criticism and the Dark Appeal of True Crime Chicago Med How the 'Chicago Med' Premiere Set the Tone for a Dynamic Season 11 Live Feed 'Gilmore Girls' Turns 25: Cast and Creator Spill Casting Secrets, Talk Show's Popularity and Hopes for a Movie Live Feed 'Wayward' Star Alyvia Alyn Lind Unpacks the Limited Series' Lingering Questions: "We All Want More" Vice Principals Kimberly Hébert Gregory, 'Vice Principals' Actress, Dies at 52 Murder Most Unladylike 'Murder Most Unladylike' Books to Be Adapted for TV Live Feed Charlie Hunnam and 'Monster' Cast Address 'Ed Gein' Criticism and the Dark Appeal of True Crime Chicago Med How the 'Chicago Med' Premiere Set the Tone for a Dynamic Season 11 Live Feed 'Gilmore Girls' Turns 25: Cast and Creator Spill Casting Secrets, Talk Show's Popularity and Hopes for a Movie Live Feed 'Wayward' Star Alyvia Alyn Lind Unpacks the Limited Series' Lingering Questions: "We All Want More" Vice Principals Kimberly Hébert Gregory, 'Vice Principals' Actress, Dies at 52