[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text dp_text_size=”size-4″]Citadel’s trailer, starring Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Richard Madden, was released by the Russo brothers on Monday, two years and $185 million later. The spy series follows the two as they attempt to reconnect with their roots.
Mason Kane and Nadia Sinh, played by Madden and Chopra Jonas, are former members of the autonomous intelligence outfit Citadel, which was brought down by a crime gang called Manticore. Mason and Nadia have no recollection of their time at Citadel and live anonymous lives as completely different people – until their former colleague Bernard (Stanley Tucci) recruits them again.
The trailer shows flashbacks to Mason and Nadia’s time at Citadel, including an explosion on a train. According to Madden and Chopra Jonas, the show’s varied time spans reflect both the experience of viewing it and the process of making it.
“I mean, I think this show is like, capitalising on two very exciting trends that we’ve seen in storytelling over the past several years, which is, we’ve all been developing a strong passion for narrative universes that have a sprawling expression to them, an interconnected years-long expression to them, where characters change and morph and move between differen” According to Deadline, he also stated, “At the same time, we’ve seen an increase in global filmmaking and the potential of non-English language movies and shows to travel to other cultures, often those dominated by English.”
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“That was really wonderful to me as someone who worked for a very long time in a non-English medium to see the success of, you know, subtitled work in English language areas,” Chopra Jonas continued. Yet I think the ambition of this show, which was so appealing to me at first, is similar to its social experiment. If, you know, the flagship programme is in English, you have an Indian show, an Italian show, and the characters and stories kind of, you know, merge and overlap.
“So, will that take a territory of people and make them watch another language?” she asked. For example, will the spectators of the Italian performance desire to watch the Hindi language show, despite the fact that they have no language in common? But what excites and fascinates me is the cross-pollination of cultures and how entertainment today transcends borders and language.”[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
