The Citadel Spyverse is expanding in a major way next year with the Italian spinoff series Citadel: Diana. Last week, as the mothership series’ debut season came to a close with a few more shocking twists, a short teaser was played that set up the next installment starring Matilda De Angelis. Now, Prime Video has released that teaser for all to see along with a bit of additional information on what to expect from the first local language iteration of the Spyverse.
Much of the focus of the footage is on De Angelis as she takes to the streets in Italy to combat the latest threat that’s operating out in the open. There’s a slow build-up showing police and agents rushing to contain a dangerous situation, including De Angelis who’s conducting her own investigation taking her to an abandoned amusement park. Once the music crescendos, everything escalates as the action kicks into high gear featuring explosions, gunfights, and tense car chases through busy streets. It seems Citadel: Diana won’t lack secrets to uncover either. Multiple scenes build intrigue for the spinoff as De Angelis goes deeper and meets more powerful people, showing that what’s happening in Italy is far bigger than anyone could possibly imagine.
Citadel: Diana appears to be built from the same bones as Citadel, intertwining action, mystery, and a bit of romance in one package. The main series followed agents Mason Kane (Richard Madden) and Nadia Sinh (Priyanka Chopra Jonas) who, after surviving the initial fall of Citadel, piece together their lost memories with the help of former colleague Bernard Orlick (Stanley Tucci) while attempting to stymie the rise of the syndicate Manticore. True to Anthony and Joe Russo’s‘ words though, you can’t trust anything you see as the series unravels the secrets and lies surrounding the relationship of Kane and Sinh as well as Citadel itself. Since crossovers are key to Citadel, it’s entirely possible the surviving agents of the main series will crop up in Diana‘s world in some capacity to connect everything back to the larger battle against Manticore.
The Citadel Spyverse Expands With Diana Next Year
Amazon and the Russos‘ grand plans are starting to take shape for the Citadel Spyverse a whole five years after everything was originally mapped out. Season 2 is already confirmed for the main series with Joe Russo expected to take the helm for every episode. There’s also an Indian spinoff that will tie closely to the main Citadel story thanks to its connection with Nadia Sinh.
While the Russos and David Weil will help produce Citadel: Diana, much of the work is in the hands of the local production team including director Arnaldo Catinari. Alessandro Fabbri developed the series and served as head writer, working alongside Ilaria Bernardini, Laura Colella, Gianluca Bernardini, and Giordana Mari. De Angelis will share the screen with Lorenzo Cervasio, Maurizio Lombardi, Julia Piaton, Thekla Reuten, Daniele Paoloni, Bernhard Schütz, and Filippo Nigro.
Citadel: Diana picks up the Spyverse in 2024. Check out the post-credits teaser below.
via Collider
What’s this all about? Here’s a clue – “Father’s Day presents”?
If your Dad is into crime/espionage thrillers and hasn’t yet read the spy thriller Beyond Enkription maybe you could get him a copy for father’s day. Depending on your budget you can choose between the eBook, the paperback or hardcover. Paradoxically, the publishers get less royalties the more expensive it becomes and if they ever make a profit those will go to charity.
Beyond Enkription is the first of six stand-alone autobiographical spy novels in The Burlington Files series based on Bill Fairclough’s life and experiences while working as an agent for MI6, the CIA et al for circa 50 years (see https://theburlingtonfiles.org).
To really get the most out of reading Beyond Enkription I suggest you first browse through his bio on TheBurlingtonFiles website and read two brief news articles published there. Why? The bio and news articles were released several years after Beyond Enkription was published and explain a shed-load of facts behind the series many of which he didn’t even know about in the 1970s.
One of the articles is about the real identities of characters in The Burlington Files (September 2021 – https://theburlingtonfiles.org/news_2021.09.26.php) and the other is about Pemberton’s People in MI6 who feature throughout the series (October 2022 – https://theburlingtonfiles.org/news_2022.10.31.php). You’ll soon be immersed in a whole new world.
Beyond Enkription is an intriguing raw factual thriller and a great read as long as you don’t expect John le Carré’s delicate diction, sophisticated syntax and placid plots. If you do … just carry on reading le Carré. After all, Fairclough was neither an author nor spy by profession. He was a mere accountant.
In fact, Colonel Alan Brooke Pemberton CVO MBE, initially his handler and later his colleague, once said the best spies don’t know they have been recruited. He was right and in many ways Beyond Enkription is conceptually about just that which is why an American critic rated it as a five star read “being up there with My Silent War by Kim Philby and No Other Choice by George Blake”.