CLASS OF ’09
Starring Brian Tyree Henry and Kate Mara
from
Government Producer/Author Tom Rob Smith and Government Producers Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson
Eight-Episode Restricted Sequence Produced by FX Productions
Will Be Out there Completely on FX on Hulu
LOS ANGELES, June 22, 2021 – FX has ordered the restricted sequence Class of ’09, a suspense thriller following a category of FBI brokers set in a close to future the place the U.S. prison justice system has been reworked by synthetic intelligence, it was introduced at this time by Gina Balian, President, Authentic Programming, FX. Produced by FX Productions, Class of ’09 shall be obtainable completely on FX on Hulu.
In Class of ’09, a bunch of FBI brokers who graduated from Quantico in 2009 are reunited following the demise of a mutual buddy. Spanning three many years and informed throughout three interweaving timelines, the sequence examines the character of justice, humanity and the alternatives we make that finally outline our lives and our legacy.
Starring Brian Tyree Henry and Kate Mara, the eight-episode sequence is from Government Producer/Author Tom Rob Smith (The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, London Spy) and Government Producers Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson (American Crime Story, Y: The Final Man, Pose, Loopy Wealthy Asians). Nellie Reed (Y: The Final Man) is a producer.
“Class of ’09 brings collectively an unimaginable staff of artists who’ve contributed to a number of of FX’s most distinctive and profitable sequence from American Crime Story and Pose to Atlanta and A Instructor,” Balian mentioned. “With a narrative from Tom Rob Smith, produced by Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson and starring Brian Tyree Henry and Kate Mara, Class of ’09 is primed to reimagine the course of justice on this distinctive and well timed thriller.”
Brian Tyree Henry (Atlanta, The Eternals, If Beale Road May Discuss) will play “Tayo Miller,” one of the vital sensible and unorthodox Brokers ever to affix the Bureau, a person who seeks not merely to make his mark on the establishment however to remake it solely.
Kate Mara (A Instructor, Pose, Home of Playing cards) will play “Amy Poet,” a girl who by no means imagined becoming a member of the world of legislation enforcement and finds herself on the middle of its most pivotal second of transformation.
Tom Rob Smith is an award-winning novelist and tv author who wrote and Government Produced the FX restricted sequence The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, which obtained 20 Emmy Award nominations together with Excellent Writing and received the Emmy Award for Excellent Restricted Sequence. Smith is represented by Joe Cohen/CAA and Carlos Goodman/Bloom Hergott Diemer Rosenthal LaViolette Feldman, Schenkman & Goodman LLP.
Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson are award profitable tv and movie producers below their manufacturing firm, Coloration Drive. They produce the restricted sequence franchise American Crime Story for FX, which has obtained 42 Emmy nominations and 17 Emmy Awards together with Excellent Restricted Sequence for every of its first tw installments, The Folks v. O.J. Simpson and The Assassination of Gianni Versace. In addition they produce FX’s award-winning, historic drama sequence Pose, and the upcoming FX on Hulu drama sequence Y: The Final Man. Jacobson and Simpson are represented by Joe Cohen/CAA and Julian Zajfen/Ziffren Brittenham LLP.
Brian Tyree Henry is represented by CAA, JWS Leisure, Jill Fritzo PR and Jackoway Tyerman Wertheimer Austen Mandelbaum Morris & Klein.
Kate Mara is represented by WME, Viewpoint and Mosaic and Sloane, Supply, Weber and Dern, LLP.