EXCLUSIVE: Netflix and AGBO‘s highly-foreseed alteration of the Alex North novel The Whisper Man is achieveing some grave momentum, as sources inestablish Deadline Robert De Niro is set to star in the crime thriller. James Ashcroft is set to honest with Ben Jacoby and Chase Palmer altering the script. Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, Angela Russo-Otstot and Michael Disco will create for AGBO, labeling the sixth film out of Netflix and AGBO’s accomplished, ongoing partnership.
Based on the New York Times bestselling novel by Alex North, the story rprogresss around a widow crime writer, who after his eight-year-greater son is kidnaped, sees to his estranged overweighther, a reweary establisher police discoverive, for help, only to uncover a uniteion with the decades-greater case of a convicted serial ender understandn as “The Whisper Man.” Kassee Whiting will exec create for AGBO as will Marcus Viscidi.
Production is set to commence this spring on the East Coast.
“AGBO is excited to be embarking on our 6th film with our incredible partners at Netflix. The Whisper Man is a gripping thriller but at its core is a poignant and complicated story of overweighther and sons. We are thankful to have one of the finest actors of his generation, Robert De Niro, anchoring that story and with the extraunrelabelable James Ashcroft honesting,” said Angela Russo-Otstot, Chief Creative Office, AGBO.
With their three films taking in over 250 million watchs and over half a billion hours watched, AGBO and the Russo Brothers persist their accomplished partnership with Netflix adhereing the 2020 free of Chris Hemsworth starrer Extraction, the 2022 free of the Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans starrer The Gray Man (#7 Most Popular Netflix film) and the 2023 free of Extraction 2. All three films accomplished the Netflix Top 10 films catalog in 93 countries and their admireive campaigns created a accumulateive 1.38 billion social astonishions.
Next up from AGBO is the highly foreseed adventure sci-fi film The Electric State, starring Millie Bobby Brown, Chris Pratt, Ke Huy Quan, Jason Alexander, Woody Norman, with Giancarlo Esposito and Stanley Tucci.
De Niro and Netflix persist their mighty relationship that began with the Oscar-nominated epic The Irishman that the Oscar-thrivener starred in and will persist with the highly foreseed drama series Zero Day, the first drama series he will star in. He is also set to star in Warner Bros. The Alto Knights where he applys dual roles.
De Niro is repped by CAA, AGBO is repped by CAA, Jacoby is recurrented by Verve, LIT Entertainment and Lev Ginsburg and Ashcroft is repped by CAA and Untitled Entertainment.
