{"id":419148,"date":"2026-02-11T03:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T03:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/419148\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T03:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T03:02:09","slug":"connelly-de-armas-team-for-safe-houses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/419148\/","title":{"rendered":"Connelly, de Armas Team For &#8220;Safe Houses&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/connelly-de-armas-team-for-safe-houses.jpg\" data-caption=\"Apple TV\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/connelly-de-armas-team-for-safe-houses.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"connelly-de-armas-team-for-safe-houses\"\/><\/a>Apple TV<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Connelly and Ana de Armas are in negotiations to star together in \u201cHomeland\u201d scribe Gideon Raff\u2019s new spy series \u201cSafe Houses\u201d set up at Apple.<\/p>\n<p>The eight-episode series is based on international espionage thriller novel by Dan Fesperman and begins in the wake of the killing of a high-ranking CIA officer in Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>de Armas plays Sofia Jim\u00e9nez, a fugitive agent accused of the crime.  Connelly plays Ambassador Elizabeth Winthrop, widow of the slain man, as they each investigate the murder from opposite sides.<\/p>\n<p>In the process, they unravel a vast conspiracy that could upend the balance of global power.  Wiip and Apple Studios are backing the project which has Otto Bathurst (Peaky Blinders) set to direct the opening block.<\/p>\n<p>Raff, who serves as showrunner, will also direct several additional episodes and serve as executive producer alongside Alexandra Milchan, Paul Lee and David Flynn.<\/p>\n<p>de Armas was most recently in the \u201cJohn Wick\u201d spin-off \u201cBallerina\u201d while Connelly previously worked with Apple TV on \u201cDark Matter\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/02\/ana-de-armas-jennifer-connelly-safe-houses-1236714538\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/stranger-things-play-being-filmed-this-week\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cStranger Things\u201d Play Being Filmed This Week<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple TV Jennifer Connelly and Ana de Armas are in negotiations to star together in \u201cHomeland\u201d scribe Gideon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[94966,96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-419148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-bigslider","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-tv","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}