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Netflix’s ‘Unabom’ Casts Tremblay, Crowe and Woodley in Ted Kaczynski Thriller

Janus Metz directs the Netflix-MRC thriller about Ted Kaczynski’s transformation, set to start production soon.

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Overview

  • Jacob Tremblay will star as Ted Kaczynski, charting his evolution from Harvard scholar to domestic terrorist in a nationwide bombing campaign.
  • Russell Crowe is set to portray Harvard psychologist Henry Murray, whose controversial experiments on Kaczynski influenced his later actions.
  • Shailene Woodley will play FBI agent Joanne Miller, who led the extensive manhunt that culminated in Kaczynski’s 1996 arrest.
  • Annabelle Wallis has joined the ensemble in an as-yet unrevealed role for the MRC-backed Netflix production.
  • Directed by Janus Metz with a screenplay by Sam Chalsen and Nelson Greaves, the film is slated to begin filming imminently; no release date has been announced.