Two actors from TV’s buzziest shows hope to make some noise with a Netflix movie.
Michelle Monaghan, one of the stars of this season’s White Lotus, and Severance headliner Adam Scott have joined Robert De Niro in The Whisper Man, a crime thriller from Netflix.
James Ashcroft, who directed the haunting Kiwi thriller Coming Home in the Dark, is helming the feature, which is being produced by AGBO, the banner behind Netflix’s tentpole sci-fi movie, The Electric State.
Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, Angela Russo-Otstot and Michael Disco are producing for AGBO.
The story, based on the New York Times best-seller by Alex North, is set in motion when an eight-year old boy is abducted. The father, a widowed crime writer, looks to his own estranged father, a retired former police detective, for help, only to discover a connection with the decades-old case of a convicted serial killer known as “The Whisper Man.”
Scott is playing the widowed author opposite De Niro’s former detective. Monaghan is the investigator leading the search for missing kids.
Ben Jacoby (The First Omen) and Chase Palmer (It) wrote the script. Production is set to start this spring on the East Coast, likely in New Jersey.
Monaghan is part of the ensemble of HBO’s Lotus, one of the buzziest shows currently airing and streaming. In February, the debut of the third season drew its largest premiere yet and has only grown from there. The actress also appeared in Apple TV’s Bad Monkey as well as last year’s Ti West horror thriller Maxxxine.
Scott, meanwhile, leads Severance, Apple TV’s acclaimed psychological thriller exec produced and directed by Ben Stiller. The show, whose first season became a pop culture sensation and earned Scott an Emmy nomination, launched its second season hit in January. He also has a cameo in Osgood Perkins’ horror hit, The Monkey, currently playing in theaters.
Monaghan is repped by Gersh and Anonymous Content while Scott is repped by UTA and Rise Management.