‘Fatal Attraction’: Paramount+ Announces Four New Cast Members; Check!

According to Deadline, Paramount+ has added four new actors to the cast of the “Fatal Attraction” series, based on the classic 1980s thriller starring Glenn Close and Michael Douglas.

The information indicates that Alyssa Jirrels (“Under the Lights”), Toby Huss (“Halloween”), Reno Wilson (“Mike & Molly”) and Brian Goodman (“Fast and Furious”) will be part of the project.

Jirrels will play Ellen Gallagher, daughter of Dan (Joshua Jackson) and Beth (Amanda Peet). Huss will play Mike Gerard, chief of investigations for the police department, “whose friendship and loyalty to Dan goes back many years.” Wilson will play Detective Earl Booker, a “veteran member of the Los Angeles Police Department with an incredible personality and a shocking inability to self-publish.” And Goodman, finally, will be Arthur Tomlinson, described as Beth’s best friend and partner, with a heartwarming and gentle personality.

Jackson plays Dan, the unfaithful husband, while Peet is Beth, a loyal wife, caring mother, and successful businesswoman whose world crumbles when her husband’s betrayal threatens to destroy their life together. Lizzy Caplan will play the lover who becomes obsessed after a brief extramarital affair.

The project is described as a reimagining of the psychosexual thriller and will be told from a modernized perspective regarding strong women, personality disorders, victim guilt and coercive control.

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The adaptation will be written by Alexandra Cunningham and Kevin Hynes (“Dirty John”).

In the 1987 film, a one-night stand returns to haunt a married man when his mistress begins to stalk him and his family.

Stanley Jaffe and Sherry Lansing, producers of the original film, will executive produce the series.

New information should be released soon.

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