Josh Hartnett has been cast in the lead role of an untitled limited series at Netflix that will be set and shot in Newfoundland, Canada. Both Hartnett and Jessica Rhoades have boarded the project as executive producers.
The official logline for the series reads, “When a mysterious sea creature terrorizes a remote Newfoundland town, a hard-bitten fisherman must fight to protect his family, his community and his vanishing way of life.”
Harnett is best known for projects he acted in throughout the late ’90s and early 2000s. He first broke out in 1998 for playing John Tate in the slasher film “Halloween H20: 20 Years Later” and Zeke Tyler in the sci-fi horror “The Faculty.” He then starred in Sofia Coppola’s “The Virgin Suicides” (1999), Michael Bay’s “Pearl Harbor” (2001), Ridley Scott’s “Black Hawk Down” (2001) and Tim Blake Nelson’s “Othello” adaptation “O” (2001). His more recent credits include Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” in 2023 and M. Night Shyamalan’s “Trap” in 2024 and one-off appearances in “The Bear” on FX and “Black Mirror” on Netflix. Up next, he will be seen in Michael Showalter’s Colleen Hoover adaptation “Verity” and James Franco’s “The Long Home.”
Rhoades’ producting credits include HBO’s “Sharp Objects,” Showtime’s “The Affair,” Max’s “Station Eleven” and Netflix’s “Black Mirror.”
Jesse McKeown is the creator and showrunner of the Newfoundland project. She also serves as executive producer alongside Hartnett, Rhoades via her Pacesetter U.K. production banner, Chris Hatcher, Jamie Childs, Louise Sutton and Sharon Hall. Writers include Karen Walton, Perry Chafe and Natty Zavitz, while Jamie Childs, Helen Shaver and Stephen Dunn all serve as directors.
