James Bond star Daniel Craig is returning to the small screen, with Deadline revealing that he’s set to headline a new drama series entitled Purity from producer Scott Rudin (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) and writer-director Todd Field (In the Bedroom, Little Children).
The project, which is based upon the book of the same name from author Jonathan Franzen, centres on “Pip, a young American woman who does not know who she is, and Andreas, a charismatic German provocateur, the role Craig is expected to play. He heads a South America-based organization that traffics in all the secrets of the world where Pip gets an internship in search of her identity.”
Originally envisioned as a feature, Purity is seeking a 20-episode series order, and has been pitched to Showtime, FX, Netflix, Hulu and Amazon, with Showtime said to have already made an offer.
