Explore Netflix’s new Stephen Graham crime drama ‘Adolescence’
Images from Netflix’s upcoming crime drama series Adolescence, starring Stephen Graham, Ashley Walters, and Erin Doherty, have been released.
The series will reunite Graham with Jack Thorne and Philip Barantini, continuing their style by shooting each episode in one continuous take as the action unfolds in real time. The team became famous for this after their 2021 film Boiling Point. The series is due for release on Netflix next year and was produced by Plan B, Matriarch Productions and Warp Films, with Brad Pitt also serving as an executive producer on the project.
Adolescence marks Owen Cooper’s first on-screen role, playing the lead role of a 13-year-old boy who is arrested for the murder of a teenage girl at his school. Graham plays his father, while Walters plays the detective and Doherty acts as the clinical psychologist assigned to his case.
Faye Marsay, Christine Tremarco, Mark Stanley, Jo Hartley and Amélie Pease also star in the project.
Graham and Barantini’s previous work together earned them a BAFTA nomination. The film Boiling Point was later adapted into a series by the BBC. The story follows a head chef on one of the busiest days of the year in his London restaurant. The entire team feels under pressure, creating a melting pot of tense relationships.
Graham co-wrote Adolescence with Thorne, who has previously written other dramas that the actor has starred in, such as Help and The Virtues, as well as penning This is England and His Dark Materials.
Warp Films recently produced Reunion, a BBC thriller written by deaf writer William Mager. Matriarch Productions was founded by Graham and his wife, Hannah Walters, who have created an ethos around championing diversity and inclusivity within the film industry. T
hey produce television and film, with a focus on providing opportunities to newcomers to the industry, both in front and behind the camera. Matriarch recently produced A Thousand Blows, a British boxing series about the Forty Elephants, an all-female London crime group which recently aired at the BFI London Film Festival.
Meanwhile, Plan B have recently produced Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Bong Joon-Ho’s latest film Mickey-17, starring Robert Pattinson and Nia Dacosta’s feature Hedda Gabler. The company recently released the film Wolfs, starring Brad Pitt and George Clooney, which was distributed by Apple TV. Mark Herbert and Emily Feller are the executive producers for Warp Films.
While a set date for the project has not been announced, the show will be released sometime during 2025.