{"id":105388,"date":"2025-10-30T04:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T04:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/105388\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T04:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T04:43:09","slug":"adam-driver-teams-with-adolescence-director-for-new-tv-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/105388\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Driver Teams with ‘Adolescence’ Director for New TV Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2012, Adam Driver<\/a> rose to fame as the aloof and emotionally unavailable love interest in Lena Dunham\u2019s \u201cGirls.\u201d<\/a> Although he stayed with the HBO comedy for all six seasons, Driver quickly made the leap to film, starring in the \u201cStar Wars\u201d sequel trilogy just three years later. And since the show ended in 2017, he\u2019s been an exclusively movie actor, receiving Oscar nominations for \u201cBlacKkKlansman\u201d and \u201cMarriage Story\u201d and starring in projects that range from \u201cFerrari\u201d to \u201cHouse of Gucci.\u201d<\/p>\n

Recently, however, Driver has slowly gotten back into TV<\/a>; in March, it was announced he would star alongside Jessica Chastain in the art world drama \u201cThe Dealer\u201d<\/a> for Apple. Now, the actor will also lead \u201cRabbit, Rabbit,\u201d a hostage thriller series for Netflix<\/a>. The streamer announced the news on Wednesday, October 29, giving the show a straight-to-series order after what was described as a \u201chighly competitive\u201d pursuit for the show\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n

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The logline for the series reads: \u201cWhen an escaped convict is cornered by law enforcement at a truck stop, he takes hostages in an effort to bargain for his freedom. But the standoff soon escalates into an unmanageable social experiment with his captives, as well as an emotional poker match with a veteran FBI Crisis Negotiator trained in \u2018tactical empathy.’\u201d Additional casting beyond Driver has not been announced. <\/p>\n

\u201cRabbit, Rabbit\u201d comes from writer Peter Craig, who will pen all episodes. Craig, who is best known for writing the screenplays for films like \u201cThe Batman\u201d and \u201cTop Gun: Maverick,\u201d most recently created the Apple TV series \u201cDope Thief.\u201d The series will be directed by Phillip Barantini, who most recently won an Emmy for directing the acclaimed<\/a> \u201cAdolescence.\u201d Studio MRC, which has created the successful Netflix series \u201cHouse of Cards\u201d and \u201cOzark\u201d as well as other shows such as \u201cThe Great\u201d and \u201cPoker Face,\u201d is producing the series.<\/p>\n

Driver, Craig, and Barantini will all executive produce the series. Additional executive producers include Samantha Beddoe for her and Barantini\u2019s It\u2019s All Made Up Productions and Bryan Unkeless for his and Craig\u2019s Night Owl banner. <\/p>\n

Driver most recently starred in \u201cMegalopolis,\u201d Francis Ford Coppola\u2019s divisive utopian science fiction epic. He will next be seen in \u201cFather Mother Sister Brother,\u201d an anthology film<\/a> from Jim Jarmusch that will be released in U.S. theaters this December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2012, Adam Driver rose to fame as the aloof and emotionally unavailable love interest in Lena Dunham\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[60047,458,146,85,46,400,69192,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-105388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-adam-driver","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-netflix","14":"tag-rabbit-rabbit","15":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}