The Whisper Man stalks Netflix August 28 — De Niro, Adam Scott, and a nursery-rhyme serial killer

If you leave a door half open… Netflix wants that rhyme stuck in your head until August 28. The Whisper Man — James Ashcroft’s thriller adapted from Alex North’s bestseller — premieres globally on the service with Robert De Niro, Adam Scott, Michelle Monaghan, Michael Keaton, John Carroll Lynch, Hamish Linklater, and Owen Teague. Runtime sits near 1h 51m: one ugly night, not a six-episode drip.

The hook

Adam Scott’s widowed crime writer loses his eight-year-old son to an abduction that rhymes with a decades-old serial case. He turns to estranged father and retired detective Robert De Niro — the cop who put “The Whisper Man” away for life. The nightmare math: if the killer is still locked up, who is whispering now?

August’s closer

This is Netflix’s starriest original film of the month after The Last House (Aug 7) and Don’t Say Good Luck (Aug 14). AGBO is in the production mix; Ben Jacoby and Chase Palmer wrote the script. Trailer tone is pure dread — kids’ rhymes, empty hallways, fathers who waited too long to talk.

Latch the windows. August 28 is when the whisper gets a play button.