EXCLUSIVE: While her Apple TV+ thriller series The Savant doesn’t premiere for another couple of weeks, Oscar winner Jessica Chastain looks to have found her next mystery to solve. Sources tell Deadline that Chastain, Oscar-nominee John Hawkes and country singer Carter Faith are set to lead the Netflix mystery thriller Heartland, with Shana Feste directing. Feste also penned the script.
Peter Chernin and Jenno Topping are producing for Chernin Entertainment, with Jason Owen producing for Sandbox Studios. Randall Poster also is producing.
The film follows Misty Jones (Chastain), a former country star who comes out of seclusion to investigate the disappearance of her missing niece (Faith), herself a rising country musician. She must grapple with her own past and Nashville’s seedy underbelly, and her search uncovers a murky side of Nashville where no one, including Misty, is who they seem.
Tracey Cook will exec produce for Chernin Entertainment with Jeff Valeri.
The Eyes of Tammy Faye Oscar winner Chastain has herself a busy September that began with her getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and will end with the premiere The Savant on September 26. She stars as a top-secret investigator who infiltrates internet hate organizations to bring down the nation’s most violent men. She also recently was seen in the drama Dreams.
Best known for The Sessions and his Oscar-nominated role in Winter’s Bone, Hawkes next can be seen in Amazon series Criminal. For Faith, this marks her acting debut.
Chastain is repped by CAA, Mosaic and Hansen Jacobsen Teller. Hawkes is repped by Innovative and Thruline Entertainment. Faith is repped by Range, CAA and Greenberg Traurig. Feste is repped by UTA.