'Ripley' Starring Andrew Scott to Premiere on Netflix

The highly-anticipated limited series drama Ripley will premiere on Netflix. 

The drama is based on Patricia Highsmith’s bestselling Tom Ripley novels. In the series, Tom Ripley (Andrew Scott), a grifter scraping by in early 1960s New York, is hired by a wealthy man to travel to Italy to try to convince his vagabond son to return home. Tom's acceptance of the job is the first step into a complex life of deceit, fraud and murder. It was previously set at Showtime. 

Ripley is co-produced by Showtime and Endemol Shine North America in association with Entertainment 360 and Filmrights. 

Executive producers are Steven Zaillian, Garrett Basch, Guymon Casady, Ben Forkner, Sharon Levy and Philipp Keel of Diogenes. Scott will serve as a producer on the series.