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A brand new adaptation of Alex North’s best-selling novel “The Whisper Man” on Netflix has discovered its star-studded solid. Academy Award-winning actor Robert De Niro will lead the brand new crime thriller and Michelle Monaghan (Jaclyn Menon in The White Lotus, Julia Meade in Mission: Inconceivable III), Adam Scott (Mark Scout in Severance), Michael Keaton (Highlight), and extra may even star. It was first reported that the streaming platform was eyeing the venture from AGBO in 2022, however the studio did not affirm it till February 2025. AGBO is Anthony and Joe Russo’s manufacturing firm, with the brothers having directed a number of fashionable Marvel movies and Netflix’s current sci-fi epic The Electrical State. The filmmaking pair is on board to supply The Whisper Man.

In line with Netflix, the movie will comply with the plot of North’s New York Instances best-selling ebook. It is the story of a widowed crime author whose eight-year-old son is kidnapped after transferring to a brand new house for a recent begin. The author appears to his father, a retired former police detective, for help, solely to find a reference to the decades-old case of a convicted serial killer generally known as “The Whisper Man.” John Carroll Lynch (The Founder, Fargo), Hamish Linklater (Midnight Mass, Nickel Boys), Owen Teague (It, You Harm My Emotions), and Acston Luca Porto (Dora and the Seek for Sol Dorado) have additionally joined the solid.

The Whisper Man marks Netflix and AGBO’s sixth partnership. James Ashcroft (The Rule of Jenny Pen, Coming Residence within the Darkish) will direct and Ben Jacoby (The First Omen) and Chase Palmer (It) will write the script. AGBO’s chief government officer, Angela Russo-Otstot, mentioned the corporate is grateful to proceed its partnership with Netflix and is happy to have the legendary Robert De Niro on board.

“AGBO is happy to be embarking on our sixth movie with our unbelievable companions at Netflix. The Whisper Man is a gripping thriller, however at its core [it] is a poignant and complicated story of father and son. We’re grateful to have one of many best actors of his technology, Robert De Niro, anchoring that story and with the outstanding James Ashcroft directing.”

Robert De Niro Is At the moment Starring In One other Netflix Manufacturing

Earlier than followers see Robert De Niro in The Whisper Man, they will watch him as a former president, prosecutor, and Vietnam veteran in Netflix’s Zero Day. The American political thriller premiered on February 20, 2025, and stars De Niro as George Mullen, the chairman of a particular fee established to establish perpetrators behind “Zero Day,” a lethal act of cyberterrorism. The assault resulted in 1000’s of deaths, which prompted Mullen’s successor to provide him powers to analyze.

Zero Day marks Robert De Niro’s first main position on the small display screen, with the remainder of the solid together with Lizzy Caplan as Alexandra Mullen (George’s estranged daughter), Jesse Plemons as Roger Carlson, Joan Allen as Sheila Mullen, and Connie Britton as Valerie Whitesell. Invoice Camp, Dan Stevens, Matthew Modine, Angela Bassett, and McKinley Belcher III spherical up the solid. Though it at present sits at 54% on Rotten Tomatoes, it looks as if viewers appear to disagree with critics and their scores.

The Whisper Man enters manufacturing this spring, however there is not any launch date but.

Supply: Netflix