{"id":415236,"date":"2026-05-06T22:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T22:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/415236\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T22:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T22:41:10","slug":"james-marsden-to-star-in-apple-tv-thriller-disavowed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/415236\/","title":{"rendered":"James Marsden to Star in Apple TV Thriller &#8216;Disavowed&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/apple-tv-2\/\" id=\"auto-tag_apple-tv-2_1\" data-tag=\"apple-tv-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple TV<\/a> has ordered a thriller series titled Disavowed, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/james-marsden\/\" id=\"auto-tag_james-marsden_1\" data-tag=\"james-marsden\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Marsden<\/a> set to play the lead role.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe series comes from Apple Studios, Blue Marble Pictures and creators Art Marcum and Matt Holloway (Iron Man, Uncharted). Disavowed is the first TV series from Marcum and Holloway, who helped launch the Marvel Cinematic Universe with 2008\u2019s Iron Man (Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby are also credited as writers on the film).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tDisavowed, based on an original idea by Marcum and Holloway, will star Marsden as Brad Griffin, a legendary CIA case officer. Brad \u201cis abruptly fired in the middle of a global hunt for an elusive assassin responsible for killing his colleague,\u201d the show\u2019s logline reads. \u201cDisgraced and outcast from the world of intelligence, all bets are off when Brad decides to go after the $15 million federal bounty on the assassin\u2019s head.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tMarcum and Holloway will executive produce with Tom Spezialy, Marsden and Theresa Kang and Caroline Garity for Blue Marble Pictures (Apple TV\u2019s Pachinko).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tMarsden can currently be seen in another Apple series, Your Friends &amp; Neighbors, and the Hulu feature film Mike &amp; Nick &amp; Nick &amp; Alice. The two-time Emmy nominee\u2019s recent credits also include Hulu\u2019s Paradise, season one of Jury Duty on Prime Video, the Sonic the Hedgehog movies and Disney\u2019s Disenchanted. He\u2019s set to reprise his role as X-Men member Scott Summers, aka Cyclops, in Avengers: Doomsday, which hits theaters in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tMarsden is repped by CAA and Jackoway Austen. Marcum and Holloway are with CAA and Untitled Entertainment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple TV has ordered a thriller series titled Disavowed, with James Marsden set to play the lead role.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[7074,430,156,79291,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-415236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-apple-tv","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-james-marsden","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}