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Williams MBy Williams MJuly 18, 2026No Comments11 Mins Read
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After the trio of Thunderbolts*, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, and Captain America: Brave New World left MCU fans hugely underwhelmed in 2025, a lot rests on the shoulders of Anthony Russo and Joe Russo once again to pick up the pieces. After Tom Holland suits up once more in Spider-Man: Brand New Day later this month, all eyes turn to December 18, when the biggest blockbuster release for the MCU since Endgame, Avengers: Doomsday, officially debuts.

But before the Russos deliver their most hotly anticipated movie in years, they have overseen one of Netflix’s most intriguing projects of the summer. The film in question is The Whisper Man, a serial killer thriller Severance‘s Adam Scott on a mission to find his missing son. The Russos are credited as producers on the film, alongside Angela Russo-Otstot, Michael Disco, and Kassee Whiting, with New Zealand’s James Ashcroft directing before his Emilia Clarke-led chiller When Darkness Loves Us debuts next year.

The Whisper Man is based on the 2019 novel of the same name by Alex North​​​​​​, and features an all-star cast alongside the aforementioned Scott and his co-lead Robert De Niro, who plays his estranged father. Also featuring in a stacked ensemble are Michelle Monaghan (True Detective), Michael Keaton (Batman), John Carroll Lynch (Zodiac), and Hamish Linklater (Widow’s Bay). The Whisper Man will premiere on Netflix on August 28, the same day as the brand-new five-episode series All the Truth in My Lies, a Spanish romance drama based on a hit Elísabet Benavent novel.































































Collider Exclusive · Oscar Best Picture Quiz
Which Oscar Best Picture
Is Your Perfect Movie?

Parasite · Everything Everywhere · Oppenheimer · Birdman · No Country

Five Oscar Best Picture winners. Five completely different visions of what cinema can be — and what it can do to you. One of them is the film that was made for the way your mind works. Ten questions will figure out which one.

🪜Parasite

🌀Everything Everywhere

☢️Oppenheimer

🐦Birdman

🪙No Country for Old Men

01

What kind of film experience do you actually want?
The best movies don’t just entertain — they leave something behind.





02

Which idea grabs you most in a film?
Great films are driven by a central obsession. What’s yours?





03

How do you like your story told?
Form is content. The way a story is shaped changes what it means.





04

What makes a truly great antagonist?
The opposition defines the protagonist. What kind of opposition fascinates you?





05

What do you want from a film’s ending?
The final note is the one that lingers. What do you want it to sound like?





06

Which setting pulls you in most?
Where a film takes place shapes everything — mood, stakes, what’s even possible.





07

What cinematic craft impresses you most?
Every great film has a signature — a technical or artistic element that makes it unmistakable.





08

What kind of main character do you root for?
The protagonist is the lens. Who you choose to follow says something about you.





09

How do you feel about a film that takes its time?
Pace is a choice. Some films sprint; others let tension accumulate slowly, deliberately.





10

What do you want to feel walking out of the cinema?
The best films leave a mark. What kind of mark do you want?





The Academy Has Decided
Your Perfect Film Is…

Your answers have pointed to one Oscar Best Picture winner above all others. This is the film that was made for the way your mind works.

Parasite

You are drawn to films that operate on multiple levels simultaneously — that begin in one genre and quietly, brilliantly migrate into another. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite is a film about class, desire, and the architecture of inequality that manages to be darkly funny, deeply suspenseful, and genuinely shocking across a single extraordinary running time. Your instinct is for cinema that hides its true intentions until the moment it’s ready to reveal them. Parasite is exactly that — a film that rewards close attention and punishes assumptions, right up to its devastating final image.

Everything Everywhere All at Once

You want it all — and this film gives you all of it. The Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All at Once is one of the most maximalist films ever made: action comedy, multiverse sci-fi, family drama, existential crisis, and a genuinely earned emotional core that sneaks up on you amid the chaos. You are someone who responds to ambition, who doesn’t want cinema to choose between being entertaining and being meaningful. This film refuses that choice entirely. It is overwhelming by design, and its overwhelming nature is precisely the point — because the feeling of being crushed by infinite possibility is exactly what it’s about.

Oppenheimer

You are drawn to cinema on a grand scale — films that understand history not as a backdrop but as a force, and that place their characters inside that force and watch what happens. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is a film about the terrifying gap between what we can do and what we should do, told with the full weight of one of the most consequential moments in human history behind it. You want your films to feel important without feeling self-important — to earn their ambition through sheer craft and the gravity of their subject. Oppenheimer does exactly that. It is enormous, complicated, and refuses easy comfort.

Birdman

You are drawn to films that foreground their own construction — that make the how of the filmmaking part of the what it’s about. Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman, shot to appear as a single continuous take, is cinema examining itself through the cracked mirror of a fading actor’s ego. You respond to formal daring, to the feeling that a film is doing something that probably shouldn’t be possible. Michael Keaton’s performance and Emmanuel Lubezki’s restless camera create something genuinely unlike anything else — a film that is simultaneously about creativity, relevance, self-destruction, and the impossibility of ever truly knowing if your work means anything at all.

No Country for Old Men

You are drawn to cinema that trusts silence, that refuses to explain itself, and that treats dread as a form of meaning. The Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men is a film about the arrival of a new kind of evil — implacable, arbitrary, and utterly indifferent to the moral frameworks we use to make sense of the world. It is one of the most formally controlled films ever made, and its controlled restraint is what makes it so terrifying. You want your films to haunt you, not comfort you. You are not interested in resolution if resolution would be dishonest. No Country for Old Men is honest in a way that most cinema never dares to be.

Adam Scott’s Last Film Is a Streaming Hit

Adam Scott and Damian McCarthy talk Hokum.
Image by Jefferson Chacon

Before starring in The Whisper Man, Scott brought to life one of 2026’s most underrated horror movies. Hokum, directed by Damian McCarthy of Oddity fame, earned a respectable $23 million on a $5 million budget earlier this year. However, its big success has since come on streaming, where the film has regularly cracked the top ten in the U.S. and across the world. Right now, the film is the 12th most-watched on PVOD, a list topped by Antoine Fuqua’s billion-dollar musical biopic, Michael.

The Whisper Man ​​​​​​premieres on Netflix on August 28. Make sure to stay tuned to Collider for all the latest streaming stories.


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Release Date

August 28, 2026

Runtime

106 minutes

Director

James Ashcroft


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