Steven Yeun to Topline ‘Pagans’ Drama at Netflix
Steven Yeun, the Emmy-winning star of Beef and Oscar nominee for Minari, has been cast to lead a new Netflix drama series titled Pagans, created by Joshua Zetumer of FX's Say Nothing. Yeun will also serve as an executive producer on the show, marking his return to series television at the streamer. The project stands out for having sparked a competitive multi-outlet bidding war before Netflix secured it with a straight-to-series order.
Pagans began as a spec script from Zetumer and is described as a supernatural drama following Gus, a father who becomes sole carer for his two children after his wife's death; while his son is ordinary, his daughter Alice proves far from it, turning a strained father-daughter bond into something more sinister. Zetumer will act as showrunner, with fellow executive producers including Drew Goddard, Sarah Esberg, Jonathan van Tulleken, Erica Kay, and Yeun's producing partner Christina Oh. Yeun's other upcoming work includes Netflix film Animals alongside Ben Affleck and Kerry Washington, and he continues to voice the lead in Prime Video's Invincible.
- Steven Yeun to star in and produce Netflix's new drama Pagans
- Series created by Joshua Zetumer, who also showruns
- Supernatural drama follows a father and his unsettling daughter
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Supernatural dramas combine imaginary or unexplained events with stories about people’s lives. In Pagans, the central relationship is between Gus, a widowed father caring for his two children, and his daughter Alice, whose nature changes the family’s circumstances.
Steven Yeun is an actor known for the series Beef and the film Minari. Joshua Zetumer, who created the show, is its showrunner, the person responsible for guiding the series’ overall story and production. Yeun is also among the programme’s executive producers, who help oversee its development.
Netflix is a streaming service that commissions and distributes television series and films. Pagans was developed as a proposed script before attracting interest from several outlets; a straight-to-series order means Netflix commissioned it as a series without first ordering a pilot episode.