New Trailer For Netflix’s Thriller Series RIPLEY Based on THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY — GeekTyrant

Netflix has released a new trailer for their upcoming thriller drama series Ripley, which is based on author Patricia Highsmith’s classic novel, The Talented Mr. Ripley. It looks like it will be a great show!

The series stars Andrew Scott, who portrays the main character, a grifter scraping by in early 1960s New York. “He is hired by a wealthy man to travel to Italy to try to convince his vagabond son Dickie Greenleaf to return home. Tom’s acceptance of the job is the first step into a complex life of deceit, fraud, and murder. Meanwhile, Marge Sherwood, an American living in Italy, suspects darker motives underlie Tom’s affability.”

The series will be able to dive more into the story and characters than the 1999 film adaptation with Matt Damon and Jude Law. Dakota Fanning as Marge Sherwood, Johnny Flynn as Dickie Greenleaf, Eliot Sumner, Maurizio Lombardi, Margherita Buy and John Malkovich.

The series is written and directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Steven Zaillian (Searching For Bobby Fisher, All The King’s Men, The Night Of). It will be released on Netflix on April 4th.