Ripley: Everything You Need To Know About The New Netflix Series

Andrew Scott and Dakota Fanning star in Ripley, one of the most anticipated series of this year, which will undoubtedly become one of the most successful in streaming. As fans of film literature may guess from the name, this crime-drama thriller series is based on the famous novel The Talented Mr. Ripley (no, Alien’s Ellen Ripley has nothing to do with it), which was brought to the cinema in 1999 with a film with Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow and Matt Damon, who become involved in a story of obsession, love triangles, lies, and death.

This is a different version of the 90’s movie (which, to begin with, takes place 10 years before the story of the series), but the essence is the same, it is the story of a master of deception, whom He dedicates himself to manipulating and scamming people to get exactly what he wants and what he needs, but with some interesting twists that separate themselves from the novel and the story that we all already know. Ripley is one of those stories where nothing is what it seems and where your perception of reality is constantly challenged, and with all that it could become one of the most talked-about series of this year and one of the most watched of the season.

We already know some of the big movie releases that come to streaming. However, the mystery continues with the release dates of the new seasons and series. But we have to be patient because little by little receiving this news excites us as fans. The most recent will be Ripley, which will take us into a suspense story in which we will meet a man who is hired by a billionaire for a special mission. But what he doesn’t know is that this mission will occur in a world of lies, revenge, betrayal, and darkness in which he will have to be very careful. Find out what we know about Ripley, come to Netflix soon!

Ripley’s Trailer

The first teaser of the series is in black and white and does not reveal too much, but it lets us see Andrew Scott as the protagonist, and small details of what we are going to see and the rest of the characters that appear in this story. The teaser raises the question: who is Tom Ripley? When we think of classic cinema, many of us remember those famous black-and-white films. Especially those that could be full of stereotypes, but that will always be iconic since they marked an entire generation and also have a series of elements that characterize that period in the history of cinema. They were usually dramas that involved forbidden love or murder in which the best detective in the city arrived to solve it. Mystery and deception could not be missing in these stories, since we had the matriarch of the millionaire family or the evil gangster who tormented the streets.

Now in 2024, Ripley arrives on Netflix. This new miniseries is based on the detective novel by American writer Patricia Highsmith. It places us in the year 1960 and introduces us to Tom Ripley, a man who we could say is a scammer, but after learning his story, we realize that he is just a man who is determined to do whatever it takes to survive. In New York. One day he runs into Herbert Greenleaf, better known as the powerful billionaire tycoon, and hires him to travel to Italy and bring his son back. Young Dickie has fled, because he is not sure if he will be the new head of the family business and Ripley must find a way to convince him and get what Mr. Greenleaf wants. However, Tom comes face to face with this life he could only dream of: luxuries, travel, and parties. And there he decides that if he puts his mind to it, he can enter this world and his contact with his new boss will be of great help. This is regardless of the price he has to pay, from committing fraud to being responsible for one (or more) murders.

When is Ripley Released?

The miniseries will have 8 chapters and will arrive on April 4 of this year. All the episodes are going to be released at the same time, so the miniseries is ideal for a marathon (which will undoubtedly win some awards).

Where to Watch Ripley?

Ripley is a Netflix original production and can be seen exclusively on this platform.

Ripley’s Series Cast

The series was directed by Steven Zaillan, the famous American producer, director, and screenwriter. Some of the productions in which he has been involved are Schindler’s List (1993), Mission Impossible (1996), American Gangster (2007), The Night of (2016) and The Irishman (2019). In the latter, he had already worked with Netflix and now returns to the studio for this new project. So, we are waiting to see all the episodes because it is also one of those stories that could give us one or another twist in the middle of the mystery. It will arrive in the Netflix catalog on April 4 of this year.

The series features Andrew Scott, from Fleabag and Specter, as con man Tom Ripley, accompanied by Johnny Flynn as Dickie Greenleaf and Dakota Fanning, from The Alienist and The Equalizer 3, as Marge Sherwood, in addition to Eliot Sumner, Pasquale Esposito, and Franco Silvestri with secondary characters.

The cast is made up of:

• Andrew Scott as Tom Ripley
• Johnny Flynn will be Dickie Greenleaf
• Dakota Fanning to play Marge Sherwood
• Eliot Sumner
• John Malkovich
• Margherita Buy

What is the Ripley Miniseries About?

The series (which is a one-season limited series) is based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith, which tells the story of Tom Ripley, a talented and brilliant young man, who is hired by a millionaire who asks for his help to bring his son back home, so Tom must travel to Europe and approach him to try to convince him. The problem is that Tom falls in love with the life, luxuries, and excesses of Dickie Greenleaf (the young man he had to help return home), and this leads him to change his mission, creating the new objective of getting a place in that world. and have everything Greenleaf has, and all of this includes lies, manipulation, and murder.

The Netflix synopsis reads: A con man named Ripley living in New York during the 1960s is hired by a wealthy man to begin a complex life of deception, fraud, and murder. Here we are going to see how the story of Tom Ripley and that of Dickie and Marge intersect, causing a series of dangerous and potentially destructive events for everyone involved.