Paramount+’s dramatization Satisfied Face has actually located its title celebrity.
Dennis Quaid will certainly star with Annaleigh Ashford in the collection and will certainly play quite versus kind in the duty of a infamous serial killer nicknamed “Happy Face” due to the fact that he attracted faces on proof in flaunting concerning his criminal activities. The collection, from exec manufacturers Robert and Michelle King (Wickedness, The Great Battle) and showrunner Jennifer Cacicio, is based upon the real-life tale of Melissa Moore, the child of the killer; the true-crime podcast Satisfied Face, from iHeartPodcasts and Moore; and Moore’s memoir Smashed Silence, created with M. Bridget Chef.
The show will certainly make use of Moore’s tale as a jumping-off place to inform a tale of just how Melissa (Ashford) is withdrawed right into her papa’s globe after years of not having call with him. Satisfied Face (Quaid), in jail for his criminal activities, discovers a method to require himself back right into his child’s life. Melissa needs to figure out if an innocent male is mosting likely to be killed for a criminal offense her papa dedicated, while additionally finding the effect her papa carried his sufferers’ family members and dealing with a considering her very own identification.
Quaid is coming off an additional Paramount+ collection, Lawmen: Bass Reeves. The Emmy and Golden World candidate’s current job additionally consists of Max’s Cycle and function movies Blue Wonder, Strange Globe and Midway. He additionally lately finished manufacturing on Reagan, a biopic in which he plays the 40th head of state of the USA.
CBS Studios is creating Satisfied Face– which was gotten to collection back in 2021– in organization with Economy size Productions, iHeartPodcasts and Semi-Formal Productions. Cacicio (Outset’s Your Honor) functions as showrunner and exec creates with the Kings, Liz Glotzer, Melissa Moore, Conal Byrne, Will Pearson, Michael Showalter (that is routing the very first episode) and Jordana Mollick.
