EXCLUSIVE: The Duffer Brothers‘ upcoming Netflix supernatural mystery The Boroughs, created by Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews, has added Jena Malone (Love Lies Bleeding), Carlos Miranda (Station 19), Seth Numrich (Under the Banner of Heaven) and Alice Kremelberg (The Sinner).
Malone plays “Claire”; Miranda plays “Paz”; Numrich plays “Blaine”; and Kremelberg plays “Anneliese.” They join the previously announced cast of Alfred Molina as “Sam, ”Geena Davis as “Renee,” Alfre Woodard as “Judy,” Denis O’Hare as “Wally,” Clarke Peters as “Art,” and Bill Pullman as “Jack.”
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Created by Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews, who also serve as showrunners, The Boroughs is set in a seemingly picturesque retirement community where a group of unlikely heroes must band together to stop an otherworldly threat from stealing the one thing they don’t have… time.
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Some have speculated the eight-episode drama will be a Stranger Things with an older cast or Stranger Things set in a retirement community. Sources close to the production have said the comparison is not quite right.
In a statement given when the project landed a series order last April, the Duffer Brothers teased, “While the heroes in The Boroughs have a few more years on them than the kids from Stranger Things, they are a similarly lovable bunch of misfits, and we can’t wait for you to join them on an adventure that is at turns scary, funny, and deeply touching.”
The Boroughs is executive produced by The Duffer Brothers and Hilary Leavitt on behalf of Upside Down Pictures, Jeffrey Addiss, Will Matthews and Ben Taylor. For the team at Upside Down, the project marks the latest effort under an overall deal with Netflix. Taylor directs multiple installments including the pilot.
Miranda is repped by Buchwald, Luber Roklin Entertainment and Yorn, Levine, Barnes, Krintzman.
