All-New Conspiracy Thriller ZERO DAY Begins Production in New York
Academy Award Nominee Angela Bassett Cast as President Mitchell;
Dan Stevens, Matthew Modine, Bill Camp, and McKinley Belcher III Join Cast
Gaby Hoffman, Clark Gregg, and Mark Ivanir To Guest Star
Previously Announced Cast Include Robert De Niro, Lizzy Caplan,
Jesse Plemons, Joan Allen & Connie Britton
Eric Newman, Noah Oppenheim, and Michael Schmidt are
Creators/Executive Producers;
Jonathan Glickman Executive Produces;
Leslie Linka Glatter is Director/Executive Producer
· Angela Bassett, Dan Stevens, Matthew Modine, Bill Camp and McKinley Belcher III have been cast in the conspiracy thriller ZERO DAY, coming soon to Netflix. Additional actors joining the limited series are Gaby Hoffman, Clark Gregg and Mark Ivanir.
· Character Descriptions:
o Angela Bassett (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever) as President Mitchell: A brilliant and perceptive political tactician who has an allegiance to Mullen.
o Dan Stevens (Gaslit; Beauty and The Beast) as Evan Green: A charismatic loudmouth and TV host of a wildly popular political program, Green becomes a thorn in George Mullen's side as his loudest critic and chief public antagonist.
o Matthew Modine (Stranger Things, Oppenheimer) as Richard Dreyer: A confident, colorful public figure who is an adept politician and holds the position of the Speaker of the House
o Bill Camp (The Queen's Gambit, The Night Of) as CIA Director Lasche: The ultimate insider who knows all the secrets, CIA Director Lasche can either be a dangerous enemy or a valuable friend to Mullen.
o McKinley Belcher III (We Won This City; Ozark) as Carl Lopez: A tough, brilliant DOJ lawyer who serves as the Zero Day Commission's lead investigator.
o Gaby Hoffman (Transparent; GIRLS) as Monica Kidder: Known both as a Silicon Valley billionaire with brilliant vision, and a soulless technocrat with the plan and means to control it.
o Clark Gregg (Painkiller; Florida Man) as Robert Lyndon: Corporate raider, provocateur, and billionaire, Lyndon has mastered the dark arts of political manipulation.
o Mark Ivanir (Away; Barry) as Natan: An intelligence operative and Mullen confidant from an era where intelligence still mattered.
· Production has begun in New York.
· Robert De Niro (previously announced) leads the cast as George Mullen, a massively popular, but complicated, former American President who is pulled from retirement to head a commission tasked with investigating a devastating global cyber-attack.
· Additional previously announced cast includes Lizzy Caplan, Jesse Plemons, Joan Allen and Connie Britton
· Zero Day is a limited series conspiracy thriller from Creator / Executive Producer Eric Newman under his Grand Electric Productions deal with Netflix, and Creator / Executive Producer Noah Oppenheim.
· Star / Executive Producer: Robert De Niro stars and executive produces in his first TV series.
· Logline: Zero Day asks the question on everyone's mind -- how do we find truth in a world in crisis, one seemingly being torn apart by forces outside our control? And in an era rife with conspiracy theory and subterfuge, how much of those forces are products of our own doing, perhaps even of our own imagining?
· Format / Episodes: Drama; six-episode limited series
· Creators / Writers / Executive Producers: Eric Newman for Grand Electric (Griselda, The Watcher, Narcos, Narcos: Mexico) and Noah Oppenheim (Jackie, The Thing About Pam, The Maze Runner)
· Creator / Executive Producer: Pulitzer Prize winner Michael S. Schmidt
· Executive Producer: Jonathan Glickman under his production company, Panoramic Media (Wednesday, Creed 3)
· Director / Executive Producer: Lesli Linka Glatter (Homeland, Mad Men and Love & Death) will direct all episodes
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