Angela Bassett, Dan Stevens, Matthew Modine Board Netflix’s ‘Zero Day’
The A-list cast of Netflix’s Zero Day continues to grow.
The limited series starring Robert De Niro has added five actors — Angela Bassett, Dan Stevens, Matthew Modine, Bill Camp and McKinley Belcher III — to its ensemble. Clark Gregg, Gaby Hoffmann and Mark Ivanir have also signed on for guest roles.
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They join a cast headed by De Niro — in the first lead TV role of his career — that also features Lizzy Caplan, Jesse Plemons, Joan Allen and Connie Britton.
Zero Day stars De Niro as George Mullen, a popular but complicated former president who comes out of retirement to head a commission investigating a devastating cyberattack. The six-episode thriller comes from creators Eric Newman (Narcos, The Watcher), Noah Oppenheim (screenwriter of Jackie and former president of NBC News) and Michael S. Schmidt, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter. The series has begun filming in New York.
Bassett will play the current president, who has an allegiance to Mullen and appoints him to the commission. Stevens will play a cable news host who becomes Mullen’s loudest critic. Modine plays politically adept speaker of the House, Camp plays the director of the CIA and Belcher will play the lead investigator for the commission.
Gregg and Hoffmann will each play billionaires — Gregg’s character is a corporate raider, while Hoffmann’s hails from Silicon Valley. Ivanir will play an intelligence operative who’s a confidant to Mullen.
Newman and Oppenheim are writing Zero Day. They executive produce with Schmidt, De Niro, Jonathan Glickman and director Lesli Linka Glatter, who’s set to helm all six episodes.
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