Emma Stone, Jonah Hill Set Date To Shoot Remake Of Norwegian Sitcom ‘Maniac’ For Netflix

Jonah Hill and Emma Stone have set a date… to start filming their new Netflix sitcom! Maniac, based on a Norwegian series of the same title, is a darkly comic fantasy that leaps back and forth between a man committed to a mental institution and his dreamworld where he becomes everything from a millionaire playboy surrounded by bikini-clad groundskeepers to a daring, Hitler-killing war hero.

Rubicon TV produced the series for the Norwegian small screen back in 2014, and also had a hand in Netflix’s first original series, Lilyhammer. Cary Fukunaga, another Netflix alum who directed their Golden Globe-nominated movie, Beasts of No Nation in 2015, will helm the entire 10-episode series. Fukunaga previously directed True Detective’s entire first season — you know, the good one — for HBO. As Deadline reports, shooting will begin August 15th in New York City, and they plan to wrap before Thanksgiving.

The tone of the original is akin to other bleak European television like Black Mirror, Peep Show, and Lars Von Trier’s The Kingdom. Hill is set to play the titular Maniac, and Emma Stone’s role has not yet been announced, but it’s assumed she’ll play another patient in the ward.

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