Netflix and Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer have lined up an A-list cast for the brothers’ next series.
The show, titled The Boroughs, has cast Alfred Molina, Geena Davis, Alfre Woodard, Denis O’Hare, Clarke Peters and Bill Pullman. Details on their roles are being kept under wraps for now, save for their character names: Sam (Molina), Renee (Davis), Judy (Woodard), Wally (O’Hare), Art (Peters) and Jack (Pullman).
Additionally, Ben Taylor (Catastrophe, Sex Education) has joined The Boroughs as an executive producer and will direct several episodes, including the series premiere.
The Boroughs comes from writers and showrunners Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews (The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance). The show’s logline reads, “In a seemingly picturesque retirement community, a group of unlikely heroes must band together to stop an otherworldly threat from stealing the one thing they don’t have — time.”
The Boroughs is part of a slate of shows the Duffers have been developing after signing a big overall deal at Netflix in 2019. Netflix also recently ordered another series, titled Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen, from the brothers and creator Haley Z. Boston. A Stranger Things stage play, The First Shadow, is set to make its Broadway debut next year after a run in London’s West End.
Addiss and Matthews are executive producing The Boroughs with Matt and Ross Duffer and Hilary Leavitt of Upside Down Pictures and Taylor.