Jude Law, Taika Waititi team for new horror series

Jude Law (“Fantastic Beasts”, “The Young Pope”) will Star in the new half-hour series “The Auteur” for Showtime.
Taika Waititi (“Thor Ragnarok”, “Jojo Rabbit”) will direct and co-write.

Based on the graphic novel by Rick Spears, James Callahan and Luigi Anderson, the series is described as a gonzo horror-comedy.

Desperate to make a great horror movie after a massive bomb, a film producer accidentally traps his production on a backlot with a serial killer.

“The Auteur unites the wildly imaginative filmmaker Taika Waititi and the barbed wit of Peter Warren with the undeniable Jude Law in a bloody love letter to the movies that will make you simultaneously die laughing and want to run for your life,” said Amy Israel, Showtime’s EVP, Scripted Programming.