Jonah Hill and Emma Stone Share a Connection in New Maniac Teaser

September 17, 2018

Netflix has released a brand new teaser for their upcoming 10-episode dark comedy series Maniac which stars Emma Stone (La La Land), Jonah Hill (21 Jump Street) and Justin Theroux (The Leftovers). The teaser highlights Stone and Hill’s characters’ strong shared cosmic connection with each other. Check out the teaser below!

Maniac is based on the 2014 Norwegian series and is largely set in the fantasy worlds of the characters that Hill and Stone play. Justin Theroux will play the role of James Mantleray. There is no official word on who Mantleray is, though the site reports that he’s believed to be playing an alcoholic doctor in the mad scientist vein.

The series also stars Sally Field as Dr. Greta Mantleray, Sonoya Mizuno as Dr. Fujita, Aaralyn Anderson as Belle Milgrim, Geoffrey Cantor as Frank, Julia Garner as Ellie, Josh Pais as Andy, , Jemima Kirke, and Rob Yang as Matt Ming.

Emmy-winner Cary Joji Fukunaga (Beasts of No Nation, True Detective) directed all of the episodes, and the show was written by Patrick Somerville.

Maniac is executive produced by Stone, Hill and Fukunaga with Michael Sugar and Doug Wald from Anonymous Content, Kruke Kristiansen and Anne Kolbjornsen, and Espen PA Lervaag and Kjetil Indegard. Ashley Zalta serves as co-executive producer.

The series will premiere on September 21, 2018 at Netflix.