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Julianne Moore (Might 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 sequence 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 very creepy relationship along 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 right down to say WTF, she has no concept what a formidable opponent Michaela shall be. Advised over the course of 1 explosive weekend at The Kells’ lavish seaside property, the present is billed as an incisive, horny, 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 along 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 sequence out of Metzler’s inventive partnership with Netflix, introduced in 2022, and comes on the heels of the Margaret Qualley-led restricted sequence Maid, her first, extremely acclaimed challenge with the streamer, which landed her Emmy, Humanitas Prize and USC Scripter Award nominations.
An Oscar winner lately seen in Todd Haynes’ acclaimed Netflix pic Might December and Starz’s Mary & George, Moore will subsequent be seen in Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language characteristic, The Room Subsequent 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 function as Sutton Brady on Freeform’s The Daring Sort, Fahy is a part of the solid of Vertical’s forthcoming genre-bender Your Monster, which premiered at this yr’s Sundance Movie Competition. Different upcoming initiatives embrace Netflix’s starry homicide thriller restricted sequence The Good 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 along with her function as a younger Rhaenyra Targaryen on HBO’s Home of the Dragon, Alcock was lately set for an much more coveted function, as she’s been tapped by DC to guide Supergirl: Girl of Tomorrow.
Beforehand, Metzler additionally served as a author and co-EP on Showtime’s Shameless. Further writing credit embrace 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, Supply, Weber & Dern; Alcock by CAA, Curtis Brown Group, Leisure 360, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman; and Metzler by CAA, Grandview, and McKuin Frankel Whitehead.