Paramount+ is getting into business with Viola Davis.
The streamer has greenlit Ascent, a thriller about a corporate fixer starring and executive produced by the Oscar winner, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Davis will play Catriona Vail, a problem-solver for billion-dollar corporate clients, who must deploy her damage control and crisis skills when her estranged daughter comes into harm’s way.
John Logan, the Skyfall and Michael screenwriter who also created the Showtime series Penny Dreadful, created the series and will serve as showrunner. Alongside Davis, Michael Aguilar and Julius Tennon will executive produce.
“I am overwhelmingly excited about this journey with the great John Logan. We won the lottery with this one,” Davis said in a statement. “Work in which both story and character are bold, awe inspiring and deeply unique is why I became an artist. We at JuVee are deeply grateful to John Logan, Michael Aguilar, and Paramount. We are ready to create magic!”
Paramount Television Studios is producing Ascent, which is set to shoot in L.A. at the Paramount studio lot in 2027.
