Published Jul 7, 2026, 11:40 AM EDT
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Amid Supergirl’s disappointing box office run, the director of the DCU film has secured a new project, collaborating with Emmy winner Julia Garner, best known for her work on the Netflix series Ozark. As fans know, Garner’s recent prominent film appearances include Marvel’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps and Weapons, both of which, released in 2025, were largely well received. As for her TV role, she was last seen playing the title character in the 2022 miniseries *Inventing Anna**.*
Now, Garner will work with director **Craig Gillespie **on **Apple **TV’s newly commissioned series, Guilty Creatures, per recent reports. She will star and executive produce the thriller, which is based on **Mikita **Brottman’s acclaimed true-crime book Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida. Stuart Zicherman will serve as showrunner and executive producer. The series is produced by Tomorrow Studios, an ITV Studios partner, and developed through the studios’ first-look deals with Garner’s Alma Margo and Gillespie’s Fortunate Jack Productions.
This is one of several upcoming projects for the Ozark star. She will soon star alongside **Anthony Boyle in Netflix’s limited series The Altruists, where she also serves as an executive producer. Additionally, she is currently filming opposite Charlize Theron **in the Amazon MGM Studios production Tyrant, directed by **David Weil **from his own script. She will also appear in the upcoming season of Apple TV’s The Studio.
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Your partner has already run seventeen scenarios by the time you’ve finished reading the briefing, and the plan he’s settled on involves at least two things that should be physically impossible. Ethan Hunt operates at the absolute edge of human capability — technically, physically, and intellectually — and he brings the same relentless precision to protecting his partners that he brings to dismantling organisations that shouldn’t exist. He is not easy to know and he will never fully tell you everything. But he will carry the weight of the mission so completely, so absolutely, that your job is simply to trust him — and the remarkable thing is that trusting him always turns out to be the right call. The mission will be impossible. He will complete it anyway.
Garner’s role and character details in Guilty Creatures have not yet been disclosed. However, a recent tease provides fans with a hint of the series’ focus. Adapted for television by Sarah DeLappe (Bodies Bodies Bodies), the true-crime story unfolds against a backdrop of sex and murder in Florida’s panhandle. The series explores the intense romance and subsequent murders committed by two young, adulterous yet devout lovers, revealing their complex lives and the emotional impact of living as killers** **for 18 years. Besides Garner, executive producers include novelist Brottman; Marty Adelstein, Becky Clements, and Alissa Bachner through Tomorrow Studios; along with Zicherman and DeLappe. Gillespie and Annie Marter also serve as executive producers through Fortunate Jack Productions.
Stay tuned to Collider for further coverage of the *Guilty Creatures *adaptation.
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