RIPLEY

Writer/Director: Steven Zaillian
Starring: Andrew Scott, Dakota Fanning, Johnny Flynn, Eliot Sumner

Matt Damon and John Malkovich have both played Tom Ripley on screen. Now Andrew Scott is entering the world of author Patricia Highsmith’s enigmatic character in the new Netflix series, Ripley. Oscar winning screenwriter Steven Zaillian (Schindler’s List, The Irishman) has written and directed all eight episodes basing this on Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley novels. The series opens with Andrew Scott as Ripley, and we find him carrying a dead body down an apartment stairwell as a cat watches on. We don’t know who the body belongs to, but the series jumps back six months to Tom living in New York City. He’s a con-artist cashing checks as he poses as a collection agency. He’s approached by a private investigator to head to Italy to find a man named Dickie Greenleaf (Flynn) and bring him back to the United States. Tom takes the job friending Dickie and his girlfriend Marge (Fanning) in their Italian home. Months pass by, and the job take an unexpected turn that finds Tom caught up in a life of lies and murder. Now streaming on Netflix

Here’s my review