Toni Collette, Merritt Wever, & Kaitlyn Dever to Star in Netflix Limited Series UNBELIEVABLE

According to Deadline, Toni Collette (United States of Tara), Merritt Wever (Godless) and Kaitlyn Dever(Last Man Standing) have been cast in Unbelievable, an eight-episode Netflix limited series from Erin Brockovich writer Susannah Grant, CBS TV Studios, studio-based producers Sarah Timberman and Carl Beverly (Masters of Sex, Elementary) and Katie Couric. In addition, Lisa Cholodenko (The Kids Are All Right) is set to direct and executive produce the first three episodes.

Susannah Grant has co-written the series and will also serve as showrunner, Michael Chabon (John Carter) & Ayelet Waldman (Applebaum), Unbelievable is based on The Marshall Project and ProPublica Pulitzer Prize-winning December 2015 article, "An Unbelievable Story of Rape," written by T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong, and the "This American Life" radio episode about the same case, "Anatomy of Doubt." It tells the true story of Marie, a teenager who was charged with lying about having been raped, and the two female detectives who followed a twisting path to arrive at the truth.

Collette and Wever will play detectives whose lives become intertwined in their mutual pursuit of a possible serial rapist. Dever's character was not revealed.

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