Benedict Cumberbatch will star in Eric, a show where his character talks to the monster under his child’s bed

Benedict Cumberbatch (unusual physicianpictured above) is about to star and produce a brand new Netflix present titled Eric.

In accordance with Deadline, the six-episode restricted sequence is described as a thriller and is about in Nineteen Eighties New York Metropolis. Cumberbatch will play Vincent Anderson, a puppeteer on a preferred youngsters’s present whose younger son has gone lacking. Vincent, overwhelmed with grief, finds consolation in speaking with Eric, the monster who lives underneath his kid’s mattress. The challenge involves us from manufacturing firm Sister (which additionally backed Chernobyl) and was written by Abi Morgan (The cut up).

“Eric is a darkish, crazed journey deep into Nineteen Eighties New York and the nice, unhealthy, and ugly world of Vincent,” Morgan stated in a press release to Deadline. “The possibility to work with Benedict and the artistic workforce at Sister and Netflix is ​​irresistible.”

Netflix UK lit up green Eric in November 2021 and shall be filmed within the UK, though it’s set in Manhattan. Along with Cumberbatch, Eric will star Gaby Hoffman (area of goals), McKinley Belcher II (ozark, The passage), Dan Foger (Implausible Beasts, The Strolling Useless) and Phoebe Nicholls (The Elephant Man). Different solid members embody Clarke Peters, Ivan Morris Howe, David Denman, Bamar Kane, Adepero Odyue, Alexis Molnar, and Roberta Colindrez.

No information but on when Eric will make its solution to Netflix.