Original Projects Page for Maniac

Status: Released

Release Date: September 21, 2018

A Netflix Limited Series

Created, written, and executive produced by Patrick Somerville

Directed by Cary Fukunaga

Cast: Jonah Hill, Emma Stone, Justin Theroux, Sally Fields, Gabriel Byrne

Trailer

Teaser

Synopsis from Netflix

Set in a world somewhat like our world, in a time quite similar to our time, Maniac tells the stories of Annie Landsberg (Emma Stone) and Owen Milgrim (Jonah Hill), two strangers drawn to the late stages of a mysterious pharmaceutical trial, each for their own reasons. Annie’s disaffected and aimless, fixated on broken relationships with her mother and her sister; Owen, the fifth son of wealthy New York industrialists, has struggled his whole life with a disputed diagnosis of schizophrenia. Neither of their lives have turned out quite right, and the promise of a new, radical kind of pharmaceutical treatment—a sequence of pills its inventor, Dr. James K. Mantleray (Justin Theroux), claims can repair anything about the mind, be it mental illness or heartbreak—draws them and ten other strangers to the facilities of Neberdine Pharmaceutical and Biotech for a three-day drug trial that will, they’re assured, with no complications or side-effects whatsoever, solve all of their problems, permanently. Things do not go as planned.”

IMDB Page for Maniac

Official Netflix Page for Maniac

Behind the Scenes

Director Cary Fukunaga, Jonah Hill, and Gabriel Byrne

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