‘Ascension’ Thriller From Alfonso Cuaron Lands at Apple TV, Caitriona Balfe Starring

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Outlander star Caitríona Balfe will team with Alfonso Cauron on her next series project.

Apple TV has placed a series order for Ascension, a thriller that Cuarón is executive producing and writing along with co-showrunners Natalie Erika James and Christian White (Apartment 7A) and Carlos Cuarón. James will also be the lead director.

Ascension will star Balfe in her first series since Outlander ended its eight-season run on Starz. She will play Rose, a documentary filmmaker and recently divorced mother who begins researching a 20th century cult known as the Church of Ascension. “She finds unexpected refuge in its teachings — until she discovers something far more insidious beneath,” the show’s logline reads. “Ascension explores evil and innocence at the highest level, while asking how far we’ll go, and what we’ll sacrifice, to protect the ones we love, even when the greatest threat to them may be ourselves.”

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The series is inspired by the novel Last Days by Adam Nevill. Ascension comes from Apple Studios, with Anonymous Content producing.

Alfonso Cuarón — who has an overall deal at Apple through his Esperanto Filmoj company — Apple Studios and Anonymous Content previously collaborated on Apple’s limited series Disclaimer, starring Cate Blanchett; Anonymous Content also produces Apple TV’s forthcoming series Neuromancer and 12 12 12. Additionally, Balfe stars in the streamer’s upcoming film Tenzing.

James and White are executive producing Ascension with Alfonso and Carlos Cuarón, Esperanto Filmoj’s Gabriela Rodriguez and Richard Schwartz, and Anonymous Content’s Steve Golin, David Levine and Zack Hayden.

Balfe is repped by WME, Emptage Hallett, Cognition, and Jackoway Austen. James is repped by WME, 3 Arts and Sloane Offer. White is with TFC Management, RGM Artists in Australia and Gochman Law Group. Alfonso Cuarón is repped by WME, Blue Marble Pictures and Ziffren Brittenham.

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