EXCLUSIVE: After studying nan minds of serial killers successful David Fincher’s Mindhunter, Holt McCallany will further excavation nan territory arsenic nan lead in Hyde, a noir-tinged thriller from filmmakers Graham and Parker Phillips (Rumble Through nan Dark) that has entered accumulation successful Bucharest, Romania.
Hyde has McCallany playing Detective Grimes, a haunted interrogator descending into nan decaying underbelly of a crumbling metropolis while hunting a sadistic serial killer.
Previously announced arsenic portion of nan project, Bruce Greenwood (The Fall of nan House of Usher) is besides group to star, on pinch Nathalie Emmanuel (Game of Thrones) and David Harewood (Homeland).
Emmanuel co-stars arsenic Detective Doran, an serviceman assigned to protector Grimes, pinch Greenwood playing Henry Monroe, nan therapist Grimes is mandated to see, whose sessions statesman to uncover nan detective’s troubled past. Harewood plays Robert Malloy, a lieutenant trying to clasp an underfunded section together while hoping he tin resistance Grimes backmost from nan edge.
Directing from their ain script, Graham and Parker Phillips are besides producing done Phillips Pictures alongside Jason Tamasco and Zak Kristofek for Traction. Cassian Elwes is exec producing alongside Keith Danko and Bailey Rotsky.
The Phillips brothers told us, “We’re thrilled to beryllium moving pinch specified intelligent and collaborative actors. Everyone arrived pinch bold ideas, beardown instincts, and a existent willingness to research and return risks, each against nan backdrop of Bucharest, whose architecture and ambiance consciousness tailor-made for this twisted tale.”
Traction’s Tamasco and Kristofek added, “it’s a privilege to person Holt subordinate and lead this formed alongside Nathalie, Bruce, and David. We could not beryllium much excited astir nan squad that has travel together and nan movie we’re creating present successful Romania. We cannot hold for audiences to experience Hyde.”
McCallany is coming disconnected of turns in The Waterfront, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning opposite Tom Cruise, The Amateur with Rami Malek and The Iron Claw. Among his upcoming projects is The Adventures of Cliff Booth, from his Mindhunter collaborator Fincher, which is group to merchandise successful Imax connected Nov. 25 earlier making its measurement to Netflix connected Dec. 23. He is repped by Buchwald, Atlas and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman.
An Emmy nominee champion known for her capacity arsenic Missandei successful HBO’s Game of Thrones, arsenic good arsenic her activity successful the Fast & Furious franchise, Emmanuel has much precocious been seen successful Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis and John Woo’s The Killer. She is repped by AJ Artists successful nan UK, IAG and Untitled.
In film, Greenwood is known for projects like Thirteen Days, Star Trek Into Darkness, The Post, Doctor Sleep and Capote. On television, he is known for starring in The Resident, The Fall of nan House of Usher, American Crime Story and Dark Winds. Currently shooting nan Netflix thriller series Trinity from writer-creator Jed Mercurio, he is repped by Gersh and Binder & Associates.
Harewood is champion known for his roles arsenic David Estes in Homeland and J’onn J’onzz in Supergirl, a domiciled he reprised across Arrow, The Flash and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow. On stage, he precocious completed a critically acclaimed West End tally of Shakespeare’s Othello, aft becoming nan first Black character to execute nan domiciled astatine nan Royal National Theatre. He is repped by IAG, Conway van Gelder Grant and Authentic Talent and Literary Management.
Graham and Parker Phillips are repped by Gersh and Zero Gravity. Tamasco and Kristofek are repped by CAA and Eugene Pikulin astatine Bruns Brennan Berry, who is handling accumulation legal.