When is the premiere of ‘Ripley’ on Netflix? Release date, plot, director, cast and trailer

Hitting the screens today (4 April), Netflix’s Ripley is based on Patricia Highsmith’s bestselling Tom Ripley novels where the main character is a small time swindler scraping a living in New York City in the early 1960s.

Ripley is hired by a wealthy individual to travel to Italy to try to convince his travelling son to return home and Ripley’s acceptance of the job is the first step into a murky world of deceit, fraud and murder as Tom poses as an old school friend in a bid to convince Dickie (the son) to return to the States.

Ripley is based on primarily on Highsmith’s 1955 novel “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” which was originally adapted into an Oscar-nominated 1999 film starring Matt Damon, Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow.

Ripley: director and cast

The eight-part thriller was written and directed by Steven Zaillian (who won an Oscar for Schindler’s List) with the 71-year-old claiming that he wanted to create something less “beautiful” and more “sinister” with Ripley shot entirely in black and white, and the characters are aged up from their mid-20s to late 30s.

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Duliner Andrew Scott plays the lead role as the sinister Ripley with a supporting cast of Johnny Flynn as Dickie Greenleaf and Dakota Fanning as Dickie’s partner Marge Sherwood.