Benedict Cumberbatch to star in Netflix collection ‘The 39 Steps’

By PTI
LOS ANGELES: British star Benedict Cumberbatch is ready to headline streamer Netflix’s upcoming restricted collection “The 39 Steps”.

The collection will reunite Cumberbatch with Berger, who directed the “Doctor Strange” actor in Showtime’s 2018 mini-series “Patrick Melrose”, reported Variety.

The six-episode present relies on the 1915 John Buchan novel that has beforehand been tailored a number of instances.

Legendary filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock had a movie on the e book in 1935, starring Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll.

The spy thriller takes place simply earlier than the outset of World War I and follows Richard Hannay, a person who comes into possession of a key to a world conspiracy and goes on the run.

“The Revenant” scribe Mark L Smith will pen the screenplay for the collection, which shall be produced by Anonymous Content, Chapter One Pictures and SunnyMarch.

Cumberbatch will government produce the restricted collection along with his producing associate Adam Ackland, alongside Smith, Berger, Sophie Gardiner, Cliff Roberts and Keith Redmon.

The actor most lately starred in “The Mauritanian” and thriller “The Courier”.

He will subsequent reprise his superhero function of Doctor Strange for 2 Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) motion pictures — “Spider-Man: No Way Home” and “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness”.