Dee Wallace, David Meunier be a part of Paramount+ streaming sequence

The final time we heard a casting announcement for the upcoming Paramount Plus sequence primarily based on the 1987 thriller Deadly Attraction (watch it HERE), we realized that Jessica Harper, star of the horror basic Suspiria, had landed a job within the present. Now Deadline has revealed the names of two extra solid members, and certainly one of them is style icon Dee Wallace! Wallace’s horror credit embody Critters, Cujo, and The Howling, amongst many others. The second new solid member is David Meunier of Justified.

This model of Deadly Attraction sees Joshua Jackson (Dawson’s Creek), Lizzy Caplan (Fort Rock), and Amanda Peet (Soiled John: The Betty Broderick Story) enjoying the characters Dan, Alex, and Beth, respectively. They have been performed by Michael Douglas, Glenn Shut, and Anne Archer within the movie.

Directed by Adrian Lyne from a screenplay by James Dearden (primarily based on Dearden’s quick movie Diversion), the ’87 Deadly Attraction had the next synopsis:

For Dan Gallagher, life is sweet. He’s on the rise at his New York legislation agency, is fortunately married to his spouse, Beth, and has a loving daughter. However, after an informal fling with a sultry guide editor named Alex, every part adjustments. Jilted by Dan, Alex turns into unstable, her habits escalating from aggressive pursuit to obsessive stalking. Dan realizes that his predominant downside isn’t hiding his affair, however somewhat saving himself and his household.

Written by Alexandra Cunningham from a narrative she co-wrote with Kevin J. Hynes, the sequence goals to

discover the timeless themes of marriage and infidelity by the lens of contemporary attitudes in direction of robust ladies, character issues and coercive management.

Additionally within the solid of Deadly Attraction are Alyssa Jirrels (As We See It), Toby Huss (Halloween 2018), Reno Wilson (Good Women), Brian Goodman (Rizzoli & Isles), Wanda De Jesus (Sons of Anarchy), John Getz (Blood Easy), Toks Olagundoye (Veep), David Sullivan (The Wilds), and newcomer Isabella Briggs

Jirrels can be enjoying Ellen Gallagher, “Dan (Jackson) and Beth’s (Peet) daughter.” This character was solely round 6 years outdated within the film, whereas Jirrels is about to show 22. Huss is enjoying Mike Gerard, “the DA’s chief of investigations, whose friendship and loyalty to deputy DA Dan Gallagher goes again a few years.” Wilson’s character is Detective Earl Booker, “a long-standing member of the Los Angeles Police Division with a big character and an lack of ability to self-edit.” Goodman is enjoying Arthur Tomlinson, “heat and type, Arthur is Beth Gallagher’s finest pal and enterprise companion.” De Jesus’s Marcella is “Dan’s boss, who has to at occasions be the bearer of dangerous information.” Dan’s boss within the film was Arthur, performed by Fred Gwynne. Harper is enjoying Sophie, “Beth’s mom a dryly witty New England transplant who loves her daughter and granddaughter and likewise a cocktail.” Getz is taking up the function of Warren, Beth’s father, “who retired from the monetary sector and doesn’t undergo fools frivolously. He places up with Dan for Beth’s sake however isn’t impressed by Dan’s profession or his means to supply for his household.” Beth’s dad and mom have been Joan (Meg Mundy) and Howard (Tom Brennan) Rogerson within the film. Olagundoye’s Deadly Attraction character is Conchita Lewis, the top of the Victims Providers Bureau and a longtime colleague and pal of Dan in addition to Alex’s boss. Sullivan can be enjoying Frank Gallardo, Dan’s #2 within the Main Crimes Bureau. “Frank is a fast-talking prosecutor who habitually juggles a mistress and enjoys making issues awkward for different individuals. Dan didn’t rent him and doesn’t like him however can’t hearth him so has realized to dwell with him.” And Briggs performs Stella. “Cheerfully energetic with a heat vibe, she is welcoming and assured and disarming when she desires to be associates.”

Wallace’s character is Emma Rauch, “open, pleasant, stylish, and but additionally delicate to boundaries. She is a retired profession girl, enthusiastic and useful volunteer, mom of grownup youngsters, and a scholar of life— somebody anybody however Alex (Lizzy Caplan) could be thrilled to have as their neighbor.”

Meunier is enjoying Richard Macksey, “a psychology professor on the college and Ellen’s (Alyssa Jirrels) thesis advisor, mentor, and pal, whose private curiosity within the work and lifetime of Carl Jung ignites Ellen’s personal curiosity.”

Coming to us from Paramount Tv Studios and Amblin Tv, Deadly Attraction is being govt produced by Cunningham, Hynes, and Amblin Tv presidents Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey. Cunningham serves as showrunner.

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