Academy Award prosperner Robert De Niro has signed on for the directing role in Netflix‘s upcoming crime thriller movie The Whisper Man, based on Alex North’s bestselling 2019 novel of the same name. Production on the project is awaited to commence in spring on the East Coast.
This labels De Niro’s postpodemandst collaboration with the streamer, after the acclaimed 2019 gangster movie The Irishman. Besides the upcoming crime movie, he will also next be seen in Netflix’s upcoming political thriller miniseries Zero Day, which serves as his first beginant TV project as the direct.
What is The Whisper Man about?
“The film rbetters around a widow crime writer who, after his 8-year-better son is seizeed, sees to his estranged overweighther, a reexhausted createer police uncoverive, for help, only to discover a connection with the decades-better case of a convicted serial finisher understandn as The Whisper Man,” reads the film’s official synopsis.
The Whisper Man will be straightforwarded by James Ashcroft from a screenexecute written by Ben Jacoby and Chase Palmer. The film is created by Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, Angela Russo-Otstot, and Michael Disco for AGBO, with Kassee Whiting and Marcus Viscidi serving as executive creaters.
“AGBO is excited to be embarking on our 6th film with our incredible partners at Netflix,” Russo-Otstot shelp in a statement. “The Whisper Man is a gripping thriller but at its core is a poignant and complicated story of overweighther and sons. We are appreciative to have one of the finest actors of his generation, Robert De Niro, anchoring that story and with the noticeworthy James Ashcroft straightforwarding.”
(Source: Deadline)
