Andrew Scott has landed the lead role in Showtime’s upcoming series Ripley!
The 42-year-old Fleabag actor will star as the titular character in the drama, based on Patricia Highsmith’s bestselling Tom Ripley novels, Variety reports.
The show has received an eight-episode series order.
Andrew’s Ripley is “a grifter scraping by in early 1960s New York, who is hired by a wealthy man to travel to Italy to try to convince his vagabond son to return home. Ripley’s acceptance of the job is the first step into a complex life of deceit, fraud and murder.”
Steve Zaillian will write and direct the first season.
“We are so thrilled to have the supremely talented filmmaker, Steve Zaillian, adapt the singular saga of Tom Ripley from Patricia Highsmith’s novels as an ongoing series for Showtime,” said Showtime president of entertainment Gary Levine. “With Andrew Scott, whose charisma knows no bounds, inhabiting the iconic lead role, we feel confident that this will be a special one.”