This action series from the directors of ‘Avengers: Endgame’ is already on Amazon Prime Video and is their most ambitious project

The first two episodes of the series ‘Citadel’ have just landed on Amazon Prime Videothe new action story with spies with which the Russo brothers want to conquer the public again. Richard Madden and Priyanka Chopra Jonas They star in this story accompanied by Stanley Tucci, Lesley Manville, Jordan Gubian or Laëtitia Eïdo among others.

history places us 8 years after the fall of Citadel, the world’s independent spy agency, in charge of ensuring world security, which was destroyed by agents of Manticore, a powerful syndicate that manipulates the world from the shadows. After the fall of the corporation, elite agents Mason Kane (Richard Madden) and Nadia Sinh (Priyanca Chopra Jonas) managed to escape and save their lives, but at the cost of losing all their memories. Since then they have remained in hiding, building new lives with new identities, unaware of their eventful past. One day, Mason is tracked down by his old Citadel colleague Bernard Orlick (Stanley Tucci), who desperately needs him to stop Manticore from establishing a new world order. Mason then searches for his old partner, Nadia, and the two spies embark on a mission that will take them across the globe in an effort to stop Manticore.

Since its announcement, ‘Citadel’ has been sold as the second most expensive series on Amazon Prime Video, only ahead of ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’. What does this proposal have? Let’s review your keys:

The Russo, creators of the blockbuster

the russo brotherscreators behind the famous Marvel Avengers saga, are in charge of this ambitious project after passing through Netflix with ‘The invisible agent’. Having seen his resume, it is not surprising that we expect fireworks and all the artillery typical of the shows to which those of Cleveland have accustomed us.

The theme that never fails

What will secret agents have that we like so much? There are all the James Bond movies to prove it. Or Ethan Hunt and all his exploits in the ‘Mission Impossible’ saga, or Jason Bourne. Not to mention the glamor and attraction that films like ‘Mr. and Mrs. Smith’ present, a proposal that would continue to work. Not to mention when there are secret agency missions that carry a lot of action. See the example of ‘John Wick 4’, whose fourth installment has been a complete success.

The action, the script twists… The producers knew the material was going to work. And that the Russo have recognized before the media that it was not easy for them: “It’s probably the hardest thing we’ve ever done, harder than the Marvel movies because it’s an original story.. Everything was built from scratch,” they said.

The right dose of chapter

The phrase “Good perfume is sold in a small bottle” goes perfectly with this newly launched project. In recent years, television series have begun to move away from those massive 22-24 episode seasons of yore to smaller groupings of episodes. One of the intentions is to create more focused stories and thus allocate larger budgets per episode. That is the example of ‘Citadel’, which lasts only six episodes. David Weil, one of the creators of the series, does not rule out longer seasons for the future. “I think living between the ages of six and eight is very healthy (…) For a future season there may be six, seven, eight, nine, but in editing what we really found worked for us was the story of six episodes (…). We never want to bore the audience, or deviate from the story just to meet an episode count. We try to be as stark, punchy, and economical in the storytelling as possible. Because audiences it demands it. There’s a lot to see, we’re fighting for their attention, so we think it’s going to be a really exciting ride for them.”

A new multiverse is coming

Once the mission of these six episodes is finished, which will culminate on May 26, there is a lot at stake with the series. In fact, in mid-March it became known that the series had been renewed for a second season. But there are many more tentacles that start from ‘Ciadel’: will feature an Indian spin-off in addition to an Italian one. The latter started production in October and the Indian stars Varun Dhawan and Samantha Ruth Prabhu. However, all eyes are on the mothership of this new global franchise.

As the Russos said, all projects will be linked by clues or easter eggs, thus creating an extensive web. We will trust them. At the end of the day, in that of spinning plots to multiverses they are already tanned.