Emma Stone turns to TV
16 September, 2018
Actors Emma Stone and Jonah Hill join the list of Hollywood stars turning to television with Netflix's 'Maniac', a dark comedy mini-series looking at human connection.
Oscar winner Stone and 'The Wolf on Wolf Street' star Hill play Annie and Owen, two strangers with personal problems who take part in a pharmaceutical drug trial.
A trailer shows the two characters in multiple, sometimes fantastical, settings during the experiment where they are told by the doctor leading the trial that 'pain can be destroyed, the mind can be solved'.
"It seemed like a great opportunity to dive into this world that was sort of different from ours but talking about a lot of the themes that we deal with today in modern society," Stone told Reuters at the show's red carpet premiere.
"Disconnection from each other and trying to fix problems in a certain way and realizing that human connection really is a balm for all of us." The show, which premieres on the streaming service on September 21, is directed by Cary Fukunaga, known for 'Beasts of No Nation' and his work on the series 'True Detective'.
"The biggest challenge of the show is that it reinvents itself each episode, that puts a lot of pressure on everybody," writer Patrick Somerville said. "We just had to make new worlds over and over again."