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Netflix Snags Adult Thriller Spec From Michael Werwie; Jason Bateman, Michael Costigan Aboard To Produce For Aggregate Films
A new Michael Werwie adult thriller spec has sold to Netflix, with Jason Bateman's Aggregate Films set to produce.
Falling under Aggregate’s first-look deal with Netflix across film and TV, the sale comes at a busy time for the company, which most recently set up comedy The Chaperone at the streamer, as a potential star vehicle for Bateman. Recently bringing in Amblin vet John Buderwitz to serve as VP of Film, the company also last summer teamed with Netflix in a bidding war over David Gauvey Herbert’s 2021 Esquire magazine article “Daddy Ball,” which is being developed as a limited series for Bateman to direct, star in, and co-EP alongside Costigan and Roxie Rodriguez. In addition to that script, which won a Nicholl Fellowship and made the Black List in 2012, Werwie previously wrote Netflix’s crime mystery Lost Girls, starring Amy Ryan as a Long Island mother in search of her missing daughter.
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