Julianne Moore (Could December), Meghann Fahy (The White Lotus) and Milly Alcock (Home of the Dragon) have been set to topline Netflix‘s Sirens, a female-driven, darkish comedy restricted collection created by Emmy-nominated author and showrunner Molly Smith Metzler (Maid) and govt produced by LuckyChap.
An adaptation of Metzler’s play Elemeno Pea, which she wrote at The Juilliard College, the present facilities on Devon, who thinks her sister Simone has a extremely creepy relationship together with her new boss, the enigmatic socialite Michaela Kell. Michaela’s cult-ish lifetime of luxurious is sort of a drug to Simone, and Devon has determined it’s time for an intervention. When Devon tracks her sister all the way down to say WTF, she has no concept what a formidable opponent Michaela might be. Informed over the course of 1 explosive weekend at The Kells’ lavish seashore property, the present is billed as an incisive, attractive, and darkly humorous exploration of girls, energy, and sophistication.
Fahy performs Devon DeWitt, who’s on a downward spiral again in her hometown. She is humorous, resilient, and fiercely protecting — particularly of her youthful sister Simone, performed by Alcock. Sharp and charming, Simone has hit the jackpot working as a private assistant to a billionaire.
Moore performs Michaela Kell, a philanthropist and animal activist who runs island excessive society and is the spouse to billionaire Peter Kell. Her relationship together with her assistant, Simone, appears too shut for consolation.
Along with showrunning and writing, Metzler will exec produce for Quiet Coyote, alongside Dani Gorin, Tom Ackerley, and Margot Robbie for LuckyChap. Emmy nominee Nicole Kassell (Watchmen) will direct the primary two episodes, additionally serving as EP.
Sirens marks the primary collection out of Metzler’s creative partnership with Netflix, introduced in 2022, and comes on the heels of the Margaret Qualley-led restricted collection Maid, her first, extremely acclaimed venture with the streamer, which landed her Emmy, Humanitas Prize and USC Scripter Award nominations.
An Oscar winner not too long ago seen in Todd Haynes’ acclaimed Netflix pic Could December and Starz’s Mary & George, Moore will subsequent be seen in Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language characteristic, The Room Next Door; Apple’s thriller Echo Valley with Sydney Sweeney and Domhnall Gleeson; and the motion thriller Management reverse James McAvoy.
Identified for her Emmy-nominated flip as Daphne in The White Lotus Season 2, and for her starring position as Sutton Brady on Freeform’s The Daring Sort, Fahy is a part of the forged of Vertical’s forthcoming genre-bender Your Monster, which premiered at this 12 months’s Sundance Movie Pageant. Different upcoming initiatives embody Netflix’s starry homicide thriller restricted collection The Perfect Couple, on which we have been first to report; Christopher Landon’s thriller Drop for Blumhouse and Platinum Dunes; and Jonn Gunn’s The Unbreakable Boy.
An Australian actress who broke out together with her position as a younger Rhaenyra Targaryen on HBO’s Home of the Dragon, Alcock was not too long ago set for an much more coveted position, as she’s been tapped by DC to steer Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow.
Beforehand, Metzler additionally served as a author and co-EP on Showtime’s Shameless. Further writing credit embody Hulu’s Informal and Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black.
Moore is represented by WME, Leisure 360, and Edelstein, Laird & Sobel; Fahy by WME, Nameless Content material, and Sloane, Provide, Weber & Dern; Alcock by CAA, Curtis Brown Group, Leisure 360, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman; and Metzler by CAA, Grandview, and McKuin Frankel Whitehead.
