Toni Collette to play detective in Netflix’s An Unbelievable Story of Rape adaptation

Lisa Cholodenko is set to direct the first three episodes.

Netflix has announced Toni Collette, Merritt Wever and Kaitlyn Dever have been cast in Unbelievable, a series based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning article by The Marshall Project and ProPublica, An Unbelievable Story of Rape.

Collette and Wever will play detectives whose lives become intertwined in their mutual pursuit of a possible serial rapist.

Lisa Cholodenko is set to direct the first three episodes.

Executive producers are Susannah Grant, Sarah Timberman, Carl Beverly, Lisa Cholodenko, Katie Couric, Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman.

Top photo: Toni Collette (credit: Rene Teichmann / Shutterstock)

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