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Exclusive: James Franco is starring in a Middle Eastern TV crime drama penned by Shades of Blue creator Adi Hasak. Check out a teaser below.

Alongside a cast of actors who hail from the Mena region, the Oscar-nominated 127 Hours star recently wrapped on Karantina, which is being shopped for the first time at Mipcom Cannes this week. Hasak told Deadline he hopes the “gamechanger” crime drama will “do for Mena what Fauda did for Israel and Squid Game did for Korea.”

Based on the German series Tempel, Franco plays an American laying low from the FBI in Beirut who has opened a club called the Miami Rainbow Club, a “taste of Americana,” according to Hasak.

The show’s lead is Yaqoub Al Farhan as Dahab, who is released from jail and promises his paraplegic wife and teenage daughter that he will never return to a world of crime, instead...

Exclusive: Artist International Group, the globally minded management and production company founded by David Unger, on Thursday announced its signing of Umut Aral, the award-winning director behind the hit Turkish-language Netflix series, Who Were We Running From?.

“It’s truly exciting to be a part of the internationally focused, dynamic Aig family, and a member of their extraordinary ensemble of talent,” said Aral in a statement to Deadline.

Added Aig CEO Unger, “Umut Aral fits perfectly into the DNA of Artist International Group, where we represent the best of the best of regional talent with global market ambitions.”

When it debuted on Netflix in March, Who Were We Running From? became one of the first Turkish productions to crack the streamer’s Top 10 in the U.S., registering on Top 10 TV charts in a total of 78 countries and spending four weeks on the platform’s Top 10 list for international Non-English series.

Who Were We Running From? (Biz Kimden Kaçiyorduk Anne?) is a Turkish series directed by Umut Aral and Gökçen Usta Çaylar, starring Melisa Sözen. It is based on the novel by Perihan Magden.

A Turkish series that seems to want to set itself apart from the monotonous plot landscape carved out by the Turkish industry: this is an elegant thriller, it’s well produced and contains irony aplenty where the plot and the aesthetic are concerned.

As our friends at Decider say: is it worth giving it a chance? Yes, it certainly is.

Who Were We Running From? About the Series

A thriller that starts exceptionally well and that knows how to become the most Hollywood thriller in all its vital facets: and that without resorting to slyness, it has a plot that draws you in from the first minute and that does not let itself get bogged down on sentimental grounds.