Netflix and Chiller: WHISPER MAN adaptation to get ‘R’ rating…

Though there’s not yet a release-date confirmed, there is news about the forthcoming Netflix film The Whisper Man.

Adapted from the critically-acclaimed novel of the same name by Alex North (published by Celadon Books and released in 2019) and directed by James Ashcroft (who lensed last year’s unsettling The Rule of Jenny Pen) , the story deal with widower Tom Kennedy who moves with his eight-year-old son, Jake, to the town of Featherbank, hoping to start a new chapter in their lives. But many years ago, the town suffered a spate of murders, made even more horrific because the victims were children. It was later discovered that all the victims had reported strange whispering outside their windows prior to those events. But that’s  decades old news… isn’t it? After all, the perpetrator – Frank Carter – has long since being locked away.  But when young Jake starts hearing whispering outside his own window, it begins – continues – a strange series of events that will shed new light on old crimes and put Tom and Jake’s’s new found peace at risk.

Previously announced, the cast includes a mixture of screen legends and rising talent, including Robert de Niro, Michael Keaton, Adam Scott, Michelle Monaghan, John Carroll Lynch, Hamish Linklater, Owen Teague and Acston Luca Porto. The adaptation is written by Ben Jacoby and Chase Palmer and is being produced by Anthony Russo and Joe Russo (the team behind the Avengers movies) .

We now know that the Netflix adaptation has been rated ‘R‘ which means ‘Some bloody violence, disturbing images, suicide, language and brief sexual references…‘

It is expected that the film will be released later this year.

For the sake of transparency, Chaotic Neutral acknowledges a familial connection to author Alex North.