Netflix Snags Adult Thriller Spec From Michael Werwie; Jason Bateman, Michael Costigan Aboard To Produce For Aggregate Films
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Netflix has locked down rights to an untitled adult thriller spec from Michael Werwie (Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile), with Jason Bateman and Michael Costigan set to produce for Aggregate Films, sources tell Deadline.
Plot details are under wraps. Falling under Aggregate’s first-look deal with Netflix across film and TV, the sale comes at a busy time for the company, which most recently set up comedy The Chaperone at the streamer, as a potential star vehicle for Bateman.
Recently bringing in Amblin vet John Buderwitz to serve as VP of Film, the company also last summer teamed with Netflix in a bidding war over David Gauvey Herbert’s 2021 Esquire magazine article “Daddy Ball,” which is being developed as a limited series for Bateman to direct, star in, and co-EP alongside Costigan and Roxie Rodriguez.
The project comes to Netflix following Werwie’s scripting and exec producing and Costigan’s producing of Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, the Joe Berlinger drama starring Zac Efron as Ted Bundy, which made its way to the streamer after premiering at Sundance 2019.
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