Apple TV+ has greenlighted Disavowed, a new espionage thriller that will put James Marsden at the center of a global manhunt. Marsden will star as Brad Griffin, a legendary CIA Case Officer who is abruptly fired in the middle of chasing an elusive assassin, then keeps hunting after going rogue.
The casting matters because Marsden is not just leading the series; he is also executive producing it. That gives Disavowed a star-driven push from the start, with a role built around an agent cut loose while pursuing the killer of a colleague and the $15 million bounty attached to the target.
The series comes from Art Marcum and Matt Holloway, who created the project as an original thriller rather than adapting existing material. Their names already carry weight in studio action storytelling after Iron Man in 2008 and Uncharted in 2022, and Apple TV+ is backing the show with the kind of international scope that has become part of its push into high-end genre television.
That scope is built into the production plan. Filming is scheduled to run for seven months, from August 2026 through March 2027, across multiple European countries. The setting fits the premise: Griffin is forced out of the agency mid-operation and has to pursue the assassin outside official channels, which leaves the series with a built-in break from the usual rules of a CIA pursuit.
What Apple TV+ has bought, then, is not just another chase story but a spy thriller with a clean hook and a hard turn. The unanswered part is how Griffin stays on the target once the agency is no longer on his side, but the answer will have to wait until production begins next year. For now, the streamer has a lead actor, a high-value premise and a long runway to turn Disavowed into one of its larger international bets.
