Netflix has picked up ‘Maniac’, the Cary Fukunaga TV project starring Emma Stone and Jonah Hill
Netflix has continued their relationship with Cary Fukunaga, picking up the director’s adaptation of Norwegian TV series Maniac starring Emma Stone and Jonah Hill. I’m ready for this. Super ready.
Netflix has ordered 10 episodes of dark comedy Maniac, reports Variety, with Emma Stone and Jonah Hill taking starring roles and Cary Fukunaga directing. The show is a remake of a 2014 Norwegian series of the same name, which centered around a young man, Epsen, whose life is seemingly too good to be true. Every situation turns to his advantage, and there’s nothing he can’t achieve. Until it’s revealed that he is in fact a patient in a psychiatric hospital, whose perfect life is just a delusion. No details about characters have yet been revealed, but if the remake follows the original, then Hill will likely take on this central role.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Fukunaga will be directing all 10 episodes. He’s previously worked with Netflix to create the streaming company’s first feature film, the critically-acclaimed Beasts of No Nation, starring Idris Elba. Fukunaga came to the public’s attention with his direction of the first season of True Detective, but he passed on its second season, which was less favorably reviewed. There’s no word yet on whenManiac might be hitting our screens.