Colman Domingo plays a media pundit who stumbles on a murder he fears he’s being framed for in the trailer for The Madness, the upcoming conspiracy thriller from Netflix, that dropped on Monday.
“I got a bull’s eye on my back,” a paranoid Domingo, in the role of Muncie Daniels, says at one point in the fast-paced teaser after he visits a murder scene deep in the woods of the Poconos and finds he’s the only witness to a crime.
As the walls close in and he fears a set-up to make him take the fall, Daniels strives to reconnect with his estranged family — and his lost ideals — in order to clear his name. The eight-episode thriller, with the Emmy winner in the starring role, is set to bow on Netflix Nov. 28.
The ensemble cast for The Madness includes Marsha Stephanie Blake, Gabrielle Graham, John Ortiz, Tamsin Topolski and Thaddeus J. Mixon. Domingo recently wrapped production on Rustin, a biopic about civil rights leader Bayard Rustin, for Netflix and Higher Ground that landed him with his first Oscar nomination.
He won an Emmy in 2022 for his role on HBO’s Euphoria and has other credits for Warner Bros.’ The Color Purple, Selma, If Beale Street Could Talk, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and more recently Sing Sing, where Domingo played John “Divine G” Whitfield, a participant in New York State’s Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA) program which is run out of the film’s eponymous prison and sees the incarcerated producing and acting in stage productions.
Stephen Belber, who created The Madness, serves as co-showrunner alongside executive producer VJ Boyd. The limited series is directed by Clement Virgo for Chernin Entertainment, which has a first look deal at Netflix. Virgo, Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping and Kaitlin Dahill also executive produce.
Source: Hollywoodreporter
