Netflix, Media Rights Capital, and director Janus Metz (“Andor”) are behind a new domestic terrorist thriller film, “Unabom,” and have secured quite the cast in lead roles.
A casting report from Deadline has revealed the streaming film focusing on the infamous Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, has landed Oscar-winner Russell Crowe (“Gladiator”), Jacob Tremblay (“Room,” “Luca”), Shailene Woodley (“Ferrari,” “Dumb Money”), and Annabelle Wallis (“Peaky Blinders”).
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Tremblay will be playing a teenage version of Kaczynski, while Crowe is set to play Professor Henry Murray, as the film will explore his time at Harvard University as a 16-year-old math prodigy (briefly noted in “Good Will Hunting“). Meanwhile, Woodley is set to play FBI Agent Joanne Miller, who uncovers his troubled past and connection to some extremely sketchy CIA experiments.
For nearly 20 years, Kaczynski would mail bombs throughout the United States (killing three people and injuring many others), terrorizing a nation from 1978 to 1995 until he was eventually caught by the FBI and died in prison.
Sam Chalsen and Nelson Greaves penned the script for the project that was originally written on spec by the duo.
The future domestic terrorist and Harvard-educated graduate was a subject of the infamous MK-Ultra experiments, which are interconnected with Professor Murray’s mind-control tests conducted at Harvard University and backed by the Central Intelligence Agency to see if It’s long been speculated the tests involved extreme doses of psychedelic drugs like LSD to see their potential effects on captured soldiers in the field, recreating extreme stressful situations while subjects were out of their minds on drugs.
A prevailing theory is that Murray/MK-Ultra tests on Kaczynski contributed to his mental instability, which isn’t a hard leap to take given the psychological stress said to be involved with the grey-zone ethics of the experiments.
We’re expecting more casting announcements to be made, so stay tuned for further additions to the call sheet.
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