Actor Robert De Niro will star in ‘Zero Day’, a new limited series in political thriller format that will premiere on Netflix.developed this Wednesday Variety. Details on the plot have been kept secret until now, but according to information from the aforementioned expert Hollywood media, the Oscar-winning actor would play a former head of the US Government in a series that could be the first lead role in a series. convention of his entire career.
“Zero Day” will be directed by Eric Newman (“Narcos”), and NBC News president Noah Oppenheim will also co-write with -Pulitzer Prize-winning Michael Smith- and executive produce with Jonathan. . In this way, the idyll between Newman and Netflix continues because he is executive producer of ‘The Watcher’ and ‘True Story’ in addition to ‘Narcos’ and ‘Narcos: Mexico’. Prior to becoming president of NBC News in 2017, Oppenheim wrote screenplays for films like “The Maze Runner” and executive produced the “The Thing About Pam” (NBC) miniseries.
De Niro, 79, was awarded Best Actor by the Hollywood Academy in 1974 and 1980. continues to evolve in his own way, above all as an actor. And the thing is, apart from ‘Zero Day’, he joined ‘Amsterdam’ this year and has been in the cast of five films since 2019, featuring ‘Joker’ or ‘The Irishman’. It is also distributed by the Netflix platform.