Kaley Cuoco has been tapped to take the lead in the upcoming mystery thriller series “Vanished,” directed by Barnaby Thompson (“Pixie,” “Mad About the Boy — The Noel Coward Story”).
Sam Claflin (“Peaky Blinders,” “Me Before You”), three-time Cesar winner Karin Viard (“Polisse,” “The Bélier Family”), and Matthias Schweighöfer (“Oppenheimer,” “Army of the Dead”) will also star in the series.
“Vanished” follows a romantic getaway to Paris that takes a dark turn. When her boyfriend Tom (Claflin) suddenly disappears aboard a train to the south of France, Alice (Cuoco) is plunged into a web of intrigue and danger, uncovering shocking secrets about the man she thought she knew.
The series was created by David Hilton and Preston Thompson, written by Preston Thompson (“Pixie,” “Kids in Love”) and executive produced by James Clayton (Slow Burn Entertainment), David Kosse (Rockwood Pictures), Barnaby Thompson (Fragile Films), Preston Thompson and AGC’s Stuart Ford, Lourdes Diaz and Miguel A. Palos Jr.
AGC Television — the scripted arm of Ford’s AGC Studios — will fully finance and co-produce, and has a co-production deal with Germany’s ARD Degeto already at an advanced stage.
Production will begin April 28th at locations in Paris and Marseilles. John Bernard, CEO of Peninsula Film will provide production services in France.