Netflix is finalising a deal for the international rights to The Alienist, TVWise can reveal. The agreement would make Netflix the home for the TNT drama everywhere outside the United States.
Based on Caleb Carr’s 1994 novel, The Alienist is a period crime drama set in 1896 New York. It follows Dr Laszlo Kreizler, an alienist, as the early psychologists were then known, who is brought in to investigate a string of gruesome murders. Daniel Brühl plays Kreizler, with Luke Evans as newspaper illustrator John Moore and Dakota Fanning as Sara Howard, an ambitious police department secretary, the trio working together to track the killer.
Produced by Paramount Television and Anonymous Content, the series paints a dark, atmospheric portrait of a city in the grip of change. Under the deal, Netflix would carry it across its international markets, adding another high-profile period drama to its line-up.