EXCLUSIVE: MGM+ has given the inexperienced mild to 9 Our bodies in a Mexican Morgue. Will McCormack (Will & Grace, Notion) is the primary actor forged within the thriller thriller, enjoying one of many leads within the six-part ensemble restricted collection written, created and government produced by Anthony Horowitz (Magpie Murders) and produced by Eleventh Hour Movies, a Sony Footage Tv-backed firm.
SPT will distribute worldwide the collection, which additionally may have a British broadcast accomplice.
9 Our bodies in a Mexican Morgue follows 9 strangers who discover themselves misplaced in a distant Mexican jungle after their small aircraft touring from Guatemala to the U.S. crashes. One after the other, the survivors are murdered, leaving the remaining passengers to unravel the terrifying thriller earlier than they too fall sufferer to the killer.
McCormack will play Kevin, a former physician who has been buying medical provides in Guatemala. Casting continues, with filming set to start this Could within the Canary Islands.
“9 Our bodies in a Mexican Morgue is a intelligent and wildly entertaining addition to MGM+’s rising slate of edge-of-your-seat thrillers,” mentioned Michael Wright, head of MGM+. “Anthony Horowitz has spun a masterfully ingenious net of deception and intrigue that retains audiences guessing till the final ax falls.”
A model of the mission initially was developed by Horowitz with Blumhouse Tv for the now-defunct shortform platform Quibi.
“I liked writing 9 Our bodies in a Mexican Morgue, which I feel often is the twistiest story I’ve ever provide you with,” mentioned Horowitz, who additionally penned the favored Alex Rider teen-spy e book collection. “It’s not only a query of who’s committing all these murders, it’s why — and I hope audiences will benefit from the really ‘killer’ ending.”
Horowitz government produces 9 Our bodies in a Mexican Morgue with Jill Inexperienced and Eve Gutierrez for Eleventh Hour Movies.
“This extremely distinctive, cinematic drama will function a large forged of worldwide characters stretching from Mexican troopers stationed at a morgue near the U.S. border to the worldwide assortment of passengers and workers on the aircraft — all of whom are hiding secrets and techniques from one another,” Inexperienced and Gutierrez mentioned. “We’re assembling a implausible ensemble forged, and Anthony Horowitz will lead them, and the viewers, on a twisted journey deep inside a harmful Mexican jungle.”
McCormack is coming off a starring function in The Cottage, which lately wrapped its Broadway run on the Hayes Theater. In TV, he could be seen starring within the Hulu collection The Different Black Lady, based mostly on the best-selling novel. Greatest recognized for his function as Will Truman on NBC’s Will & Grace, which he reprised within the present’s late-2010s revival, McCormack gained the Emmy for his efficiency in 2001.
His different collection credit embody starring in three seasons of Netflix’s Vacationers, the place he additionally served as a director and producer. McCormack is repped by Gersh, and Harris Hartman at Sloane, Provide, Weber and Dern.
