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Apple TV has ordered a thriller series titled Disavowed, with James Marsden set to play the lead role.

The 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’s Iron Man (Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby are also credited as writers on the film).

Disavowed, based on an original idea by Marcum and Holloway, will star Marsden as Brad Griffin, a legendary CIA case officer. Brad “is abruptly fired in the middle of a global hunt for an elusive assassin responsible for killing his colleague,” the show’s logline reads. “Disgraced 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’s head.”

Marcum and Holloway will executive produce with Tom Spezialy, Marsden and Theresa Kang and Caroline Garity for Blue Marble Pictures (Apple TV’s Pachinko).

Marsden can currently be seen in another Apple series, Your Friends & Neighbors, and the Hulu feature film Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice. The two-time Emmy nominee’s recent credits also include Hulu’s Paradise, season one of Jury Duty on Prime Video, the Sonic the Hedgehog movies and Disney’s Disenchanted. He’s set to reprise his role as X-Men member Scott Summers, aka Cyclops, in Avengers: Doomsday, which hits theaters in December.

Marsden is repped by CAA and Jackoway Austen. Marcum and Holloway are with CAA and Untitled Entertainment.

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