Just days after news of the project first surfaced, Netflix has picked up Maniac, a TV package that includes Emma Stone and Jonah Hill as stars and Cary Fukunaga as director.
We only heard about Maniac last week. It is being produced by Anonymous Content and Paramount TV and is based on a 2014 Norwegian series of the same name. According to Deadline, Netflix put in a straight-to-series order, with the first season running 10 episodes.
Amazingly, the project still doesn’t have a writer. The series it is based on was about a mental institution patient who has an elaborate fantasy in his dreams. Hill will play the main character, while Stone will star as another patient.
Hill and Stone previously worked together in Superbad, while Fukunaga remains best known for his Emmy-winning work as the director of True Detective’s first season. He also helmed Netflix’s Beasts of No Nation with Idris Elba. Fukunaga is also working on TNT’s The Alienist.
This is the latest big deal for Netflix just in the past seven days. The streaming service also nabbed a show that will star Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant. Titled Santa Clarita Diet, the comedy will debut in 2017.
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