Netflix has given a straight-to-series order to an A24-produced crime drama, Set off Level, starring Joel Edgerton.
The streamer received a bidding struggle for the venture, which comes from creator and showrunner Harrison Question (Heads of State, Paramount+’s upcoming Unspeakable: The Homicide of JonBenet Ramsey). Insurgent Ridge helmer Jeremy Saulnier is on board to direct.
Netflix describes Set off Level as an motion crime drama. In line with its logline, the eight-episode season will comply with “a gaggle of former Tier One Particular Forces operators who promote their elite abilities to the prison underworld behind the entrance of a non-public navy contracting agency — and the FBI agent who’s attempting to find them.”
Edgerton (Prepare Desires, Apple TV’s Darkish Matter) will play a personality named Pink, one of many former particular forces operatives-turned-criminals.
A24 purchased Question’s spec script for Set off Level earlier this 12 months and has been creating the venture for a number of months. Saulnier has been hooked up to the present from the beginning, with Edgerton approaching board earlier than A24 took the sequence out to potential patrons.
Question will govt produce Set off Level with Saulnier and Joe Hipps and Patrick Macdonald of Minimize To, which has a deal at A24.
Set off Level joins an A24 TV roster that additionally contains the just lately ordered Discretion (Paramount+) and Superfakes (Peacock), together with present sequence Beef (Netflix), Overcompensating and Hazbin Resort (each Prime Video) and the upcoming Margo’s Received Cash Troubles (Apple TV).
Edgerton is repped by WME and Nameless Content material. Question is with CAA, Floor Management and McKuin Frankel. Saulnier is repped by CAA, Untitled Leisure and Granderson Des Rochers.