Just days after news of the project first surfaced, Netflix has picked up Maniac, a TV package that includes Emma Stone and Jonah Hill as stars and Cary Fukunaga as director.
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But that sort of genre-crossing career transition is one that Maniac actors Jonah Hill and Emma Stone have experienced for themselves. Anonymous Content’s Michael Sugar and Doug Wald are co-producing.
Maniac, based on a Norwegian series, is a ideal fit for Netflix.
For those who are not oriented yet with the “Maniac” series, A.V. Club detailed that it will follow the life of a man in his thirties named Espen, played by Hill.
True Detective’s Cary Fukunaga is in talks to possibly direct every episode, as well as serve as an executive producer alongside Stone and Hill. The original Maniac centered on a patient in a psychiatric institution who escaped his life by living out fantasies in his mind. No writer is now attached to the project, but a search is reportedly underway.
The streaming service is working out the details on a straight-to-series 10-episode order for the show.
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The pair acted opposite one other in 2007’s Superbad before Hill took roles in the Jump Street comedies, The Lego Movie, and accepting Oscar nominations for performances in Moneyball and The Wolf of Wall Street; Stone received an Oscar nod for that year’s Best Picture, Birdman.
