EXCLUSIVE: Emmy-winning actor Yahya Abdul-Mateen ll (Wonder Man, Watchmen) will star in and executive produce Netflix’s upcoming series Man on Fire.
The project was ordered by the streamer in March. The eight-episode drama series is an adaptation based on A.J. Quinnell’s Man on Fire and The Perfect Kill, the first two books in Quinnell’s five-book series previously adapted to film in 2004 starring Denzel Washington and in 1987 in an Italian film of the same name.
Director Steven Caple Jr. (Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts, Creed II) will direct episodes 1 and 2 of the latest incarnation and also serve as executive producer.
In the new series, Abdul-Mateen II will lead as John Creasy, a once high-functioning and skilled Special Forces mercenary known for surviving even the most desolate of situations.
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