Netflix and AGBO’s adaptation of the Alex North novel The Whisper Man has added one other star to its ensemble with Michael Keaton (Beetlejuice, Batman) becoming a member of the the function adaptation of the pic starring Robert De Niro. John Carroll Lynch, Hamish Linklater, Owen Teague and Acston Luca Porto are additionally on board becoming a member of De Niro in addition to Adam Scott and Michelle Monaghan.
James Ashcroft is ready to direct, with Ben Jacoby and Chase Palmer adapting the script. Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, Angela Russo-Otstot and Michael Disco will produce for AGBO, marking the sixth movie out of Netflix and AGBO’s ongoing partnership.
Primarily based on North’s New York Instances bestselling novel, The Whisper Man revolves round a widow crime author who, after his 8-year-old son is kidnapped, seems to his estranged father, a retired former police detective, for assist, solely to find a reference to the decades-old case of a convicted serial killer referred to as “The Whisper Man.”
Manufacturing is ready to start out this spring on the East Coast.