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by Alex Billington
July 14, 2026
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“I never thought it was going to start again…” Netflix has revealed the first official trailer for an unsettling crime thriller titled The Whisper Man, arriving to watch starting in the end of August this summer. The latest from director James Ashcroft, adapted from the bestselling novel by Alex North about the mysterious case of a serial killer and a missing child. A grieving father and his young son relocate to the quiet town of Featherbank, which was terrorized by a killer known as “The Whisper Man” 15 years earlier, while rumors circulated that Whisper Man worked with an accomplice. When his 8-year-old son is abducted, a widowed crime writer looks to his estranged father, a retired former detective, for help, only to discover a connection with the decades-old case of a convicted serial killer. “Despite the genre and the trappings of a serial killer thriller, it was the characters and the father-son relationship that’s mirrored throughout the story that really made me sink in.” The Whisper Man movie stars Robert De Niro, Michelle Monaghan, Adam Scott, Hamish Linklater, Owen Teague, Acston Luca Porto, and Will Brill, with Michael Keaton as “The Whisper Man”. This definitely looks creepy and mysterious – just hope it’s better than most Netflix thrillers.
Here’s the official trailer (+ poster) for James Ashcroft’s thriller The Whisper Man, from YouTube:
“The deadliest killers can’t be silenced.” A crime thriller based on the NY Times bestselling book by Alex North. When his 8-year-old son is abducted, a widowed crime writer named Tom Kennedy (Adam Scott) looks to his estranged father (Robert De Niro), a retired former police detective, for help, only to discover a connection with the decades-old case of a convicted serial killer with the moniker “The Whisper Man.” But it’s also complicated by a disturbing fact: The Whisper Man, also known as Frank Carter (Michael Keaton), has been in prison since his capture years ago. The Whisper Man film is directed by New Zealand filmmaker James Ashcroft, director of the fims Coming Home in the Dark and The Rule of Jenny Pen previously, and many other short films. The screenplay is written by Ben Jacoby and Chase Palmer. Based on the novel of the same name written by Alex North first published in 2019. Produced by Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, Angela Russo-Otstot, Michael Disco, Kassee Whiting. Netflix debuts Ashcroft’s The Whipser Man thriller film steaming on Netflix starting August 28th, 2026 coming up soon. Any good? Who’s watching?
