{"id":525989,"date":"2026-07-14T17:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T17:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/525989\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T17:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T17:59:12","slug":"the-whisper-man-trailer-robert-de-niro-adam-scott-chase-kid-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/525989\/","title":{"rendered":"The Whisper Man Trailer: Robert De Niro & Adam Scott Chase Kid-Killer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summer getting too hot for you? Let\u2019s cool things down with a chilling (and chilly) new horror offering from the good folks at Netflix<\/a>, this one all about a freaky child-killer and the two men hellbent on bringing him down. Now that\u2019s cold.<\/p>\n

Based on the New York Times-bestselling novel of the same name by Alex North, James Ashcroft\u2019s \u201cThe Whisper Man<\/a>\u201d stars Robert De Niro<\/a>, Adam Scott<\/a>, Michelle Monaghan, Michael Keaton, Hamish Linklater, Owen Teague, Acston Luca Porto, and Will Brill. De Niro and Scott are on hand as an estranged father and son who are brought back together when Scott\u2019s character\u2019s young son is abducted after the pair move back to his sleepy hometown after a horrible tragedy. Monaghan is the tough-as-nails police detective who gets caught up in the case.<\/p>\n

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And before you wonder, gee, why would someone move their already traumatized kiddo back to the same small town where a creepy child-killer called The Whisper Man killed five kids not so many years ago, we\u2019ve got answers! In the film<\/a>, Scott\u2019s Tom Kennedy long ago cut ties with his father Pete Willis (De Niro), mostly because the former cop was way too obsessed with his work. That included catching and jailing the so-called Whisper Man. So, see? The kid-killer is long, long gone\u2026 <\/p>\n

Oops. Per the film\u2019s official logline: \u201cWhen his eight-year-old son is abducted, a widowed crime writer looks to his estranged father, a retired former police detective, for help, only to discover a connection with the decades-old case of a convicted serial killer known as \u2018The Whisper Man.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Ashcroft is no stranger to the freaky and the bloody, having previously directed the well-regarded festival hit \u201cThe Rule of Jenny Pen\u201d<\/a> (aka the John Ligthow scary puppet movie) and the truly unnerving serial killer outing \u201cComing Home in the Dark.\u201d <\/p>\n

North is similarly a big name in the scary stories world, though Ashcroft\u2019s film is the first time his crime novels have been adapted for the screen. Should \u201cThe Whisper Man\u201d scare up big viewership for the streamer, North might be next in line for the Harlan Coben treatment (read: lots and lots of Netflix adaptations<\/a>). He\u2019s got a bunch of other books to mine, too, including \u201cThe Shadow Friend,\u201d \u201cThe Angel Maker,\u201d and \u201cThe Half Burnt House.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Whisper Man\u201d will be available to stream on Netflix starting on Friday, August 28. Check out the film\u2019s first trailer below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Summer getting too hot for you? Let\u2019s cool things down with a chilling (and chilly) new horror offering…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[26958,156,593,409,1094,111,139,69,59125,260141,28104],"class_list":["post-525989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-adam-scott","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-movies","tag-netflix","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-robert-de-niro","tag-the-whisper-man","tag-trailers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}