UNT. NOAH BAUMBACH (Patreon)

UNT. NOAH BAUMBACH

Studio: Netflix Studios

Starts: June, 2021

Producer: David Heyman

Director: Noah Baumbach

Writer: Noah Baumbach

Casting Director: Doug Aibel

Location: TBD

Log Line: To be based on Don Dellelio's novel "WHITE NOISE". The book follows a year in the life of Jack Gladney, a professor who has made his name by pioneering the field of Hitler studies (though he has not taken German lessons until this year). He has been married five times to four women and rears a brood of children and stepchildren with his current wife, Babette. Jack and Babette are both extremely afraid of death; they frequently wonder which of them will be the first to die.

Roles:

[Jack Gladney]
Male late 30s/early 40s Lead
Jack Gladney is the protagonist and narrator of the novel. He is a professor of Hitler studies at a liberal arts college in middle America. He has been married five times to four women and rears a brood of children and stepchildren with his current wife Babette.
Attached Adam Driver

[Babette]
Female late 30s/early 40s Lead
Babette is Jack's wife. They have six children from previous marriages, and they are currently living with four of these children. Babette has an affair with Willie Mink, aka Mr. Gray, in order to obtain Dylar.
Attached Greta Gerwig

[Morty]
Male 37-45 Supporting
Black or Jewish. Morty is a colleague of Jack's. He wants to create a field of study centered on Elvis Presley in the same way that Jack has created one around Hitler. He teaches a course on the cinema of car crashes, watches TV obsessively, and cheerfully theorizes about many subjects, including media saturation, mindfulness, and the meaning of supermarkets.
Prototype Brian Tyree - Henry or Jonah Hill

[Mr. Gray aka Willie Mink]
Male Supporting
A compromised reachsearcher who invents the drug Dylar. Babbette has an affair with him in order to get the drug.

[FRITZ]
Male 14 Supporting
He's cerebral, insular, highly intelligent, intense. Over the course of the story, he comes out of his shell and into his own.

[DEBBIE]
Female 13 Supporting
She's sharp, hard-headed, caring. A realist. Attuned to all going around her, and proactive in situations.
Callback BIRDIE SILVERSTEIN

[MEGAN]
Female 10-12 Supporting
She's more sensitive and innocent than her siblings. Intuitive and sweet.

[WALKER]
Male 2-4 Small Supporting
A lively, expressive, bright toddler. Doesn't speak much yet. Identical twins, a plus.

[Dana Breedlove]
Female Supporting
Jack's first and fourth wife and the emother of two of his children. She workds part time for teh CIA and conducts covert dop-offs in Latin America. She also writes book reviews.

[Bee]
Female 12 Small Supporting
The twelve-year old daughter of Jack and Tweedy Browner. She lived in South Korea for two years.

[Tweedy Browner]
Female Small Supporting
Jack's third wife and mother of Bee

[Mary Alice]
Female 19 Small Supporting
The nineteen-year old daughter of Dana Breedlove and Jack's first marriage.

[Orest Mercator]
Male Small Supporting
Fritz's friend who trains to sit in a cage with vipers.

[Vernon Dickey]
Male late 60s/early 70s Small Supporting
Babbett's father who visits the family and gives Jack a gun.

[Winnie Richards]
Female Small Supporting
A scientist at the college where Jack works, to whom Jack goes to for information about Dylar.

[Janet Savory]
Female Small Supporting
Jack's second wife and the mother of Fritz. She manages the financial businesses of an ashram in Montana, where she is known as mother Devi. Before that she worked as a foregn-currency analyst for a secret group of adanced theorists.