Michael Keaton is the next star to join join Robert De Niro in The Whisper Man for Netflix and AGBO.

Along with De Niro, Keaton joins John Carroll Lynch, Hamish Linklater, Owen Teague, Acston Luca Porto, Adam Scott and Michelle Monaghan.

The film is an adaptation of the novel byAlex North. James Ashcroft will direct from a script by Ben Jacoby and Chase Palmer.

The novel “revolves around a widow crime writer who, after his 8-year-old son is abducted, looks to his estranged father, a retired former police detective, for help, only to discover a connection with the decades-old case of a convicted serial killer known as “The Whisper Man.”

Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, Angela Russo-Otstot and Michael Disco will produce for AGBO. It will be executive produced by Kassee Whiting for AGBO as will Marcus Viscidi. 

Deadline first reported on Michael Keaton joining The Whisper Man.