Los Angeles, December 1 (IANS). Hollywood star Robert De Niro is set to star in the Netflix series Zero Day. As Variety reports, the political thriller is directed by Eric Newman and Noah Oppenheim.
Exact plot details are being kept under wraps, but sources say the show will be a political thriller with De Niro playing a former US president. Newman, Oppenheim and Oppenheim are writers and executive producers of the series, with a story by Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Schmidt.
De Niro is one of the most celebrated movie stars of all time, having won Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor for Raging Bull and The Godfather Part Two, respectively.
He has been nominated for a total of seven Academy Awards for acting, as well as earning a Best Picture nomination for The Irishman, which he produced and starred in.
Newman has a long relationship with Netflix, dating back to his work on the hit series Narcos. Newman was an executive producer, writer, and executive producer on Narcos and later became an executive producer and executive producer on the follow-up series Narcos: Mexico.
Newman’s other Netflix credits include creating the Kevin Hart-Wesley Snipes series True Story and executive producing the Ryan Murphy-Ian Brennan series The Watcher, which was recently renewed for a second season.
Oppenheim is the president of NBC News, a position he has held since 2017. He was previously the executive in charge of The Today Show.
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