Academy Award winner Robert De Niro has signed on for the leading role in Netflix‘s upcoming crime thriller movie The Whisper Man, based on Alex North’s bestselling 2019 novel of the same name. Production on the project is expected to begin in spring on the East Coast.

This marks De Niro’s latest collaboration with the streamer, after the acclaimed 2019 gangster movie The Irishman. Besides the upcoming crime movie, he will also next be seen in Netflix’s upcoming political thriller miniseries Zero Day, which serves as his first major TV project as the lead.

What is The Whisper Man about?

“The film revolves around a widow crime writer who, after his 8-year-old son is abducted, looks to his estranged father, a retired former police detective, for help, only to discover a connection with the decades-old case of a convicted serial killer known as The Whisper Man,” reads the film’s official synopsis.

The Whisper Man will be directed by James Ashcroft from a screenplay written by Ben Jacoby and Chase Palmer. The film is produced by Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, Angela Russo-Otstot, and Michael Disco for AGBO, with Kassee Whiting and Marcus Viscidi serving as executive producers.

“AGBO is excited to be embarking on our 6th film with our incredible partners at Netflix,” Russo-Otstot said in a statement. “The Whisper Man is a gripping thriller but at its core is a poignant and complex story of father and sons. We are grateful to have one of the finest actors of his generation, Robert De Niro, anchoring that story and with the remarkable James Ashcroft directing.”

(Source: Deadline)