“My orders are to protect you with my life,” vows earnest FBI agent Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso) to terrified homicide witness Rose Larkin (Luciane Buchanan, above, with Basso) earlier than they go on the run from assassins on this political thriller. Faster than you may depend to Three Days of the Condor, she’s received his again too.
The pair are thrown collectively within the sequence’ gripping premiere. Ambitious Peter works within the White House basement answering a top-secret emergency line for spies that by no means rings… till panicked cyber-technologist Rose calls. She’d been given the quantity by her aunt and uncle throughout a house invasion. Peter’s steerage in Rose’s ear helps her survive. Her kinfolk don’t — and she or he’s shocked to study they have been undercover operatives.
“Peter’s more an old-school rule follower, Rose is a new-tech rule breaker,” says govt producer Shawn Ryan, grasp of character-driven actioners resembling The Shield and S.W.A.T. “They have to learn to be more like each other.shawn”
The duo start to unwind a authorities conspiracy and find yourself combating to cease a mass-casualty assault. In the motion sequences Ryan realized he’d struck gold casting Basso.
“He almost became a Navy SEAL, until he got a torn labrum,” he shares. “I joked with him, ‘Peter’s not as badass as you are in real life.’”
The Night Agent additionally stars Hong Chau (recent off of her Oscar nomination for The Whale), Robert Patrick, Sarah Desjardins, Fola Evans-Akingbola, Eve Harlow, Enrique Murciano, Phoenix Raei, and DB Woodside.
Ryan is creator and showrunner along with govt producing alongside Seth Gordon and Marney Hochman with MiddKid Productions; Julia Gunn with Exhibit A; Jamie Vanderbilt, William Sherak, Paul Neinstein and Nicole Tossou with Project X; and David Beaubaire with Sunset Lane Media. Gordon, Guy Ferland, Ramaa Mosley, Adam Arkin, and Millicent Shelton are administrators. The sequence is produced by Sony Pictures Television Studios.
The Night Agent is predicated on the novel by Matthew Quirk.
The Night Agent, Series Premiere, Thursday, March 23, Netflix