Overview
- Netflix published the first full trailer for The Whisper Man on Tuesday and confirmed the film will stream globally on August 28, 2026.
- The movie adapts Alex North’s bestseller about a widowed crime writer whose eight-year-old son is abducted and whose search reopens a decades-old case tied to a killer called the Whisper Man.
- Principal cast listed in press materials includes Robert De Niro, Adam Scott, Michelle Monaghan, Hamish Linklater, Owen Teague, Acston Luca Porto, and Will Brill.
- Multiple outlets report Michael Keaton appears in the film and may play the Whisper Man, but his specific role remains reported rather than fully confirmed in Netflix’s materials.
- Produced by the Russos’ AGBO and directed by James Ashcroft from a Ben Jacoby and Chase Palmer script, the film was shot in New Jersey in April–June 2025 and is being presented as Rated R for violent and disturbing content.