What you can expect from de niros TV series

When viewers Robert de Niro see in his new political thriller from Netflix Zero Day Wear a suit and a tie – and with an American flag pin on his lapel – “He immediately meets you as president we all want.”

These are the words (more here) of the former president of NBC News, Noah Oppenheim, the fabricated by Netflix ‘ Zero Day Series alongside producer and screenwriter Eric Newman (American Ur projectsPresent GriseldaPresent The observerPresent NarcosAnd Narcos: Mexico) and Pulitzer Prize winner Michael S. Schmidt. Her new series with de Niro in his first leading role with television is the biggest Netflix new publication of the coming week, which is essentially nightmare fuel for everyone who is concerned about the potential effects and consequences of a catastrophic cyber attack.

The last time Netflix published a top-class thriller about a cyber attack, the author director Sam Esmail’s Leave the world behindIt grew up strongly on the streamer. This film about a cyber attack that causes widespread devastation was one of the most viewed Netflix original films during the back half of 2023, achieved 4.5 billion minutes in December 2023. Streaming viewers clearly have a perverse fascination to see some of their worst fears dramatized.

As for Zero DayDe Niro is both a star in and an executive producer for the show – his first time that he produces a TV series. Here is everything you should know about the show, which also contains an absolutely occupied line -up that we will take a closer look at below.

Publication date: The series with six episodes meets Netflix on February 20.

Who is there: In addition to de niro the Zero Day The occupation includes Jesse Plemons, Lizzy Caplan, Connie Britton, Joan Allen, Matthew Modine, Angela Bassett and Clark Gregg.

What is it about?: De Niro plays George Mullen, a respected former US president. After a devastating cyber attack, Mullen causes a zero day commission. According to Netflix, “when disinformation is widespread and the personal ambitions of power brokers in technology, Wall Street and the government Collide, forces Mullen’s search for the truth to confront his own dark secrets while he is risking everything he is exhausting .. ”

In a Netflix advertising interview, Newman about de Niro said that “in this process he was very practical, very involved in our partner, very involved, all in every phase, and it was an incredible honor and an incredible privilege. On the one hand, you can count the actors and actresses in history who bring this level of gravitas, family tree and talent to their work. “

What are so-called zero-day attacks? These are a certain type of cyber attack in which an attacker uses a software developer susceptibility to the susceptibility to security before the developer even knows the susceptibility to security – and therefore no solution is yet available. The name results from the fact that the software manufacturer did not have days to tackle the error.