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“I think we're dealing with pretty primal forces of right and wrong with this story,” Australian writer/ director Thomas M. Wright said during a discussion about his new film The Stranger at Deadline’s Cannes studio. “It was a very difficult film to make just in terms of managing the amount of info in it,” Wright…

An undercover cop befriends a murder suspect in The Stranger, a taut Australian thriller in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section. Written and directed by Thomas M. Wright (Acute Misfortune), it features excellent performances from Sean Harris and Joel Edgerton, who also serves as producer. The Stranger begins simply…

EXCLUSIVE: Cush Jumbo (The Good Fight), James Nesbitt (The Missing), Richard Armitage (The Stranger) and Sarah Parish (Bancroft) have been set as cast in the series adaptation of Harlan Coben's New York Times bestselling novel Stay Close at Netflix. Nicola Shindler is exec producing the project for Studiocanal-owned Re…

Three months after launch, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman's short-form service Quibi is entering its first awards season. As the nascent platform, which is still finding its feet with subscribers, kicks off its debut FYC campaign, Deadline has assembled a virtual roundtable of creators and stars to explore how it…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is working to lock down its latest Harlan Coben adaptation, in a project that will reunite the bestselling author with the production company behind The Stranger. Deadline understands that the streamer is finalizing a deal to reimagine Coben’s 2012 novel Stay Close for the screen, with British…

Less than a week after its launch, Quibi is teasing viewers with its first major horror – the trailer for Veena Sud's rideshare drama The Stranger. The short-form service has unveiled the first-look at the series, which launches on April 13. It tells the story of an unassuming young rideshare driver who is thrown into…

Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman’s new short-form mobile streaming platform Quibi put its stake in the Park City snow with a strong presence at the Sundance Film Festival. Veena Sud (The Killing, Seven Seconds) and Kaitlin Olson (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) stopped by the Deadline Studio to talk about their…

EXCLUSIVE: Avan Jogia (Zombieland: Double Tap, Now Apocalypse), Dane DeHaan (ZeroZeroZero, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets) and Maika Monroe (It Follows, Honey Boy) are set to star in Veena Sud’s (The Killing, Seven Seconds) upcoming Quibi series The Stranger. The thriller follows an unassuming young…

Quibi continues its content spree with a new series from The Killing creator Veena Sud. She is set to create, write, direct and executive produce The Stranger, a shortform thriller from Fox 21 Television Studios. The logline: An unassuming young rideshare driver is thrown into her worst nightmare when a mysterious…

Happy Valley and Downton Abbey star Siobhan Finneran and Ant Man and The Wasp and Ready Player One star Hannah John-Kamen have joined Netflix drama The Stranger. The pair will star alongside The Hobbit and Berlin Station star Richard Armitage in the eight-part crime drama from the team behind crime drama…

The Hobbit and Berlin Station star Richard Armitage is to front a crime drama for Netflix as the SVOD service reunites with the team behind crime drama Safe. Armitage, whose Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz-directed feature The Lodge is at the Sundance Film Festival, is fronting The Stranger. The eight-episode series…