Narcos’ Wagner Moura to star opposite Elizabeth Moss in ‘Shining Girls’ for Apple TV+

“Narcos” star Wagner Moura has been tapped as a lead opposite Elisabeth Moss in “Shining Girls,” Apple TV+’s metaphysical thriller series based on Lauren Beukes’ 2013 best-selling novel, which comes from Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way and MRC Television.

Emmy Award winner Elisabeth Moss will executive produce and star in “Shining Girls.”
Emmy Award winner Elisabeth Moss will executive produce and star in “Shining Girls.”

Nellie Andreeva for Deadline:

Wagner Moura
Wagner Moura
Created and written by Silka Luisa, The Shining Girls book centers on a Depression-era drifter who must murder the “shining girls” in order to continue his travels.

Moura will play Dan, a veteran journalist breaking the widening story of a copycat attack. Moss plays a Chicago reporter who survived a brutal assault only to find her reality shifting as she hunts down her attacker.

In addition to starring, Moss executive produces via her Love & Squalor Pictures, alongside Lindsey McManus.

Moura is known for his scene-stealing role as real-life drug cartel boss Pablo Escobar in the first two seasons of Narcos, which earned him a Golden Globe nomination

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