Netflix has released the first full trailer for Cary Joji Fukunaga’s wonderfully strange looking limited series ‘Maniac‘ starring Emma Stone and Jonah Hill.
Set in a world somewhat like our world, in a time quite similar to our time, ‘Maniac’ tells the stories of Annie Landsberg (Emma Stone) and Owen Milgrim (Jonah Hill), two strangers drawn to the late stages of a mysterious pharmaceutical trial, each for their own reasons.
Annie is disaffected and aimless, fixated on broken relationships with her mother and her sister; Owen, the fifth son of wealthy New York industrialists, has struggled his whole life with a disputed diagnosis of schizophrenia. Neither of their lives have turned out quite right, and the promise of a new, radical kind of pharmaceutical treatment.
That treatment is a sequence of pills which its inventor, Dr. James K. Mantleray (Justin Theroux), claims can repair anything about the mind, be it mental illness or heartbreak. Annie and Owen, along with ten other strangers, are drawn to the facilities of Neberdine Pharmaceutical and Biotech for a three-day drug trial that will, they’re assured, with no complications or side-effects whatsoever, solve all of their problems, permanently… As you might expect, things don’t quite go as planned…
Along with Stone, Hill and Theroux, ‘Maniac’ also stars Trudie Styler, Jemima Kirke and Gabriel Byrne.
The limited series is created by Patrick Somerville (‘The Leftovers’, ‘The Bridge’, ’24: Live Another Day’), and is directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga (‘True Detective’). The series is based on the Norwegian television show of the same name by Hakon Bast Mossige and Espen PA Lervaag.
‘Maniac‘ premieres on Netflix on Friday, 21st September 2018.
