Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Oscar-winning actor Robert De Niro is set to star in The Whisper Man movie for Netflix. The screen adaptation of Alex North's best-selling book will be written by Ben Jacoby and Chase Palmer, and directed by James Ashcroft.

Academy Award winner Robert De Niro has signed on for the leading role in Netflix‘s upcoming crime thriller movie The Whisper Man, based on Alex North’s bestselling 2019 novel of the same name. Production on the project is expected to begin in spring on the East Coast.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix and AGBO’s highly-anticipated adaptation of the Alex North novel The Whisper Man is gaining some serious momentum as sources tell Deadline Robert De Niro is set to star in the crime thriller.

Throughout Apple Cider Vinegar, journalists are investigating Belle. One of them, a journalist named Justin (Mark Coles Smith), learns about Belle from his partner Lucy (Tilda Cobham-Hervey), who takes solace in Belle's feed while she’s undergoing breast cancer treatment—and even decides to pause it altogether and try alternative remedies.

Netflix’s "Apple Cider Vinegar" tells the story of an Australian woman who fakes brain cancer and builds a massive wellness empire. Here’s what Belle Gibson did and how she was caught.

In “Apple Cider Vinegar,” a new Netflix series released on Thursday, Kaitlyn Dever plays Belle Gibson, a real Australian woman who proliferated a scam about overcoming terminal brain cancer through healthy eating.