Lizzy Caplan, Jesse Plemons, and More Join Robert De Niro in Netflix Limited Series ZERO DAY
Lizzy Caplan (Mean Girls, Castle Rock), Jesse Plemons (Breaking Bad, Fargo), Joan Allen (Pleasantville, The Notebook), and Connie Britton (Friday Night Lights, The White Lotus) have joined Academy Award-winner Robert De Niro in the limited Netflix conspiracy thriller series Zero Day.
In the series, “Caplan plays Alexandra Mullen, a young Congresswoman who has sought to distance herself from her father’s political legacy. Plemons is Roger Carlson: Former Mullen ‘body man’ seeking a return to the national stage alongside Mullen. Allen portrays Sheila Mullen: Former First Lady and nominee to the federal bench whose professional ambitions take a backseat to her husband’s political career. Britton plays Valerie Whitesell: A savvy, intelligent political operative who was Mullen’s former Chief of Staff.”
De Niro executive produces and leads the cast as George Mullen, a massively popular, but complicated, former American President who is pulled from retirement to head a commission tasked with investigating a devastating global cyber-attack.
Zero Day, from creator/writor/executive producer Eric Newman under his Grand Electric Productions deal with Netflix, and creator/writer/executive producer Noah Oppenheim, asks the question — how do we find truth in a world in crisis, one seemingly being torn apart by forces outside our control? And in an era rife with conspiracy theory and subterfuge, how much of those forces are products of our own doing, perhaps even of our own imagining?
Pulitzer Prize winner Michael S. Schmidt also is credited as creator/executive producer on the six-episode limited series; Jonathan Glickman executive produces under his production company, Panoramic Media; Lesli Linka Glatter will direct all episodes and also executive produce.
This sounds like an interesting series concept with an outstanding cast! I look forward to checking it out.
via: Deadline