The A-list solid of Netflix’s Zero Day continues to develop.
The restricted sequence starring Robert De Niro has added 5 actors — Angela Bassett, Dan Stevens, Matthew Modine, Invoice Camp and McKinley Belcher III — to its ensemble. Clark Gregg, Gaby Hoffman and Mark Ivanir have additionally signed on for visitor roles.
They be a part of a solid headed by De Niro — within the first lead TV function of his profession — that additionally options Lizzy Caplan, Jesse Plemons, Joan Allen and Connie Britton.
Zero Day stars De Niro as George Mullen, a well-liked however difficult former president who comes out of retirement to move a fee investigating a devastating cyber-attack. The six-episode thriller comes from creators Eric Newman (Narcos, The Watcher), Noah Oppenheim (screenwriter of Jackie and former president of NBC Information) and Michael S. Schmidt, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Instances reporter. The sequence has begun filming in New York.
Bassett will play the present president, who has an allegiance to Mullen and appoints him to the fee. Stevens will play a cable information host who turns into Mullen’s loudest critic. Modine performs politically adept Speaker of the Home; Camp performs the director of the CIA; and Belcher will play the lead investigator for the fee.
Gregg and Hoffman will every play billionaires — Gregg’s character is a company raider, whereas Hoffman’s hails from Silicon Valley. Ivanir will play an intelligence operative who’s a confidant to Mullen.
Newman’s and Oppenheim are writing Zero Day. They govt produce with Schmidt, De Niro, Jonathan Glickman and director Lesli Linka Glatter, who’s set to helm all six episodes.
