After starring in two of the buzziest sequence of 2025, Adam Scott and Michelle Monaghan are each teaming up for Netflix movie “The Whisper Man,” a person with information of the challenge advised IndieWire.
Scott, who leads Emmy-winning sequence “Severance,” will star as a widowed crime author who works together with his estranged father, a retired police detective (Robert De Niro), to seek out his kidnapped 8-year-old son. The duo quickly understand that the case has a reference to a decades-old homicide dedicated by a convicted serial killer generally known as “The Whisper Man.” The movie relies on Alex North’s New York Instances bestselling novel.
Monaghan is ready for an undisclosed function. She presently seems in “The White Lotus” Season 3.
“The Whisper Man” was first reported with De Niro starring in February 2025. James Ashcroft (“The Rule of Jenny Pen,” “Coming Residence within the Darkish”) will direct the movie, with Ben Jacoby (“The First Omen”) and Chase Palmer (“It”) adapting the script.
Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, Angela Russo-Otstot, and Michael Disco will produce for AGBO. Kassee Whiting will government produce for AGBO together with Marcus Viscidi. Manufacturing is ready to start out this spring on the east coast.
“The Whisper Man” is AGBO’s sixth movie with Netflix. Together with hit options “The Grey Man,” “Extraction,” and “Extraction 2,” the banner can be behind the streamer’s upcoming movie “The Electrical State” starring Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt. “The Electrical State” premieres March 14 on Netflix.
“AGBO is happy to be embarking on our sixth movie with our unbelievable companions at Netflix,” Russo-Otstot, AGBO’s chief inventive officer, stated in a press assertion. “’The Whisper Man’ is a gripping thriller however at its core is a poignant and sophisticated story of father and sons. We’re grateful to have one of many most interesting actors of his technology, Robert De Niro, anchoring that story and with the exceptional James Ashcroft directing.”
De Niro stars in one among Netflix’s newest sequence “Zero Day,” and he beforehand starred in Martin Scorsese’s crime epic “The Irishman.”
De Niro is represented by CAA, with Monaghan represented by Gersh and Nameless Content material, and Scott represented by UTA and Rise Administration.
Deadline first reported each Monaghan and Scott’s “The Whisper Man” casting.
Reporting by Brian Welk