Geena Davis, Alfre Woodard & Bill Pullman Among 6 Cast In Duffer Brothers’ ‘The Boroughs’

The Duffer Brothers‘ upcoming Netflix supernatural mystery The Boroughs, created by Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews, has added 6 to its cast: Alfred Molina (Spider-Man: No Way Home), Geena Davis (Thelma & Louise), Alfre Woodard (Clemency), Denis O’Hare (American Horror Story), Clarke Peters (Da 5 Bloods) and Bill Pullman (The Sinner).

Molina will play Sam; Davis will play Renee; Woodard will play Judy; O’Hare will play Wally; Peters will play Art; and Pullman will play Jack. Netflix also announced today that Ben Taylor (Sex Education) has come aboard to exec produce and direct multiple installments of the eight-episode drama, including the pilot.

Created by Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews (The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance), who also serve as showrunners, The Boroughs is set in a seemingly picturesque retirement community where a group of unlikely heroes must band together to stop an otherworldly threat from stealing the one thing they don’t have… time.

Some have equated the series to Stranger Things with an older cast, or Stranger Things set in a retirement community — which tracks, given the Duffers’ creation of that series — though other sources close to the production have said that this comparison is not quite right. In a statement given when the project landed a series order last April, the Duffer Brothers teased, “While the heroes in The Boroughs have a few more years on them than the kids from Stranger Things, they are a similarly lovable bunch of misfits, and we can’t wait for you to join them on an adventure that is at turns scary, funny, and deeply touching.”

Exec producers of The Boroughs include The Duffer Brothers and Hilary Leavitt on behalf of Upside Down Pictures, Jeffrey Addiss, Will Matthews, and Taylor. For the team at Upside Down, the project marks the latest effort under an overall deal with Netflix, which has also seen them at work on Stranger Things‘ anticipated fifth and final season, the Olivier Award-winning play Stranger Things: The First Shadow expanding the franchise; and the psychological horror series Something Very Bad is Going to Happen.

Molina is repped by Lou Coulson Associates in the UK and Anonymous Content; Davis by CAA, Untitled Entertainment, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller; Woodard by CAA, Circle Management + Production, and Gochman Law Group; O’Hare by Innovative Artists; Peters by Conway van Gelder Grant in the UK, Vanguard Management Group, and Kraditor & Haber; Pullman by CAA; and Taylor by the UK’s Curtis Brown Group and CAA.