Michelle MacLaren will direct the first two episodes of Apple TV’s forthcoming thriller Disavowed and serve as an executive producer. The appointment brings an experienced television director to a series led by James Marsden, whose character is a dismissed CIA officer pursuing an assassin accused of killing a colleague.

Created by Art Marcum and Matt Holloway, Disavowed centres on Brad Griffin, who goes after a $15 million federal bounty after being cast out of the intelligence world. MacLaren and Rebecca Hobbs will executive produce under MacLaren’s Apple TV deal, alongside Marsden, Marcum, Holloway and others; Blue Marble Pictures, the company behind Pachinko, is producing.