Emma Stone and Jonah Hill are planning on working together for the first time since Superbad and surprisingly not for the big screen. The two are attached to a dark comedy TV series that director Cary Fukunaga is working on.
The project is called Maniac and is based on the 2014 Norwegian series of the same name. Anonymous Content and Paramount TV are producing. Deadline reports that the studios might be looking for a straight to season order, or even a two-season order before cameras even roll.
Fukunaga would direct every episode. He just directed the film Beasts of No Nation for Netflix and helmed the entire first season of HBO’s True Detective, which was co-produced by Anonymous, as well. True Detective earned Fukunaga an Emmy win.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the executive producers would be Hill, Stone, Fukunaga and Michael Sugar and Doug Wald of Anonymous Content.
Maniac centers on a character named Espen, a mental patient who somehow escapes to his own fantasy world in his head. It was written and directed by Hakon Bast Mossige and Espen PA Lervaag.
Hill recently starred in Hail, Caesar! and has Oscar nominations for Moneyball and The Wolf of Wall Street. Stone has an Oscar nomination for Birdman and will next be seen in La La Land.