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He'll also be an executive producer of the A24 drama starring Elle Fanning and Nicole Kidman.

Matt Shakman Daniel Obzejta

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Paramount+ ‘s legal thriller Discretion already has two A-list stars in Nicole Kidman and Elle Fanning. The series has now lined up a big-name director too.

Matt Shakman ( Fantastic Four: First Steps, WandaVision ) has signed on to direct the first four episodes of the series from A24. The Emmy nominee will also be an executive producer of Discretion .

Paramount+ landed Discretion in October 2025 with a straight-to-series order following a bidding war for the project, which is based on a short story by Chandler Baker. The drama was the first big series greenlight for Paramount direct-to-consumer chief Cindy Holland, who formally joined the company after the Skydance acquisition.

Discretion stars Fanning as Lenny, a summer associate at a big law firm in Dallas who “uncovers a web of NDAs masking a dark truth,” the show’s logline reads.…