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Netflix is gearing up for one more status true-crime drama, this time digging into the chilling story behind one in every of America’s most notorious home terrorists. Titled UNABOM, this new thriller is impressed by actual occasions and can comply with the youth and eventual unraveling of Ted Kaczynski, in any other case generally known as the Unabomber.
The mission is being helmed by director Janus Metz, with the script penned by Sam Chalsen and Nelson Greaves. Metz, a Danish filmmaker, just lately labored on the critically acclaimed Disney+ sequence Andor in addition to motion pictures like Heartbound: A Completely different Type of Love Story and Borg vs. McEnroe.
Sophie Cassidy produces for two.0 Leisure, with Don Lee, Chalsen, and Greaves serving as govt producers. The movie is being developed in affiliation with MRC.
Jacob Tremblay, greatest recognized for his breakout roles in Room and Marvel, has beforehand appeared in two Netflix Originals, albeit in voice roles, in My Father’s Dragon and Orion and the Darkish. He will tackle the lead function of Kaczynski.
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Russell Crowe, in his first vital function for Netflix, will painting Professor Henry Murray, the Harvard psychologist whose controversial experiments on Kaczynski stay a darkish footnote in educational historical past.
Shailene Woodley rounds out the core forged as FBI agent Joanne Miller, who leads the high-stakes manhunt years later. Additionally starring is Annabelle Wallis in a yet-to-be-revealed function.
The official logline units the stage for a psychological and procedural thriller:
“Impressed by true occasions, UNABOM follows Ted Kaczynski’s (Jacob Tremblay) transformation from Harvard prodigy into the notorious Unabomber. Subjected to controversial psychological experiments by Professor Henry Murray (Russell Crowe), Kaczynski’s troubled previous resurfaces many years later when his manhunt, led by FBI agent Joanne Miller (Shailene Woodley), brings to mild the chilling penalties of ambition and isolation.”
Manufacturing is anticipated to start quickly, and whereas the movie has but to be given a launch date, it’s already shaping as much as be one in every of Netflix’s extra formidable true-crime tasks in growth.
This marks Netflix’s first-ever Unabomber mission, aside from the sequence Manhunt: Unabomber, which Netflix carried the streaming rights to for 4 years between 2018 and 2022. Netflix additionally streams the documentary sequence “Unabomber – In His Personal Phrases” in choose international locations on the time of publication.
Keep tuned to What’s on Netflix for extra on UNABOM as we monitor casting updates, manufacturing timelines, and eventual launch plans.
