Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne Star in the First Trailer For ‘The Good Nurse’
The based-on-truth tale of a killer medic written by ‘Last Night in Soho’s Krysty Wilson-Cairns and directed by Tobias Lindholm.
What would you do if the co-worker, someone you’ve put your trust in as you share secrets during a stressful job, turned out to be a much more dangerous person than you could ever have suspected?
That’s the situation faced by real-life nurse Amy Loughren, who ended up becoming the key to cracking the case of her colleague Charles Cullen, who, it turns out had been secretly murdering patients in their care for years.
Cullen was considered a great carer, but became known as the Angel of Death, implicated in roughly 300 killings in 16 years. He was eventually caught by two former Newark homicide detectives who tracked his actions across hospitals in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, aided by Loughren, who risked her job and family safety to stop him.
You can read more about the actual case here, but now the story is being brought to the screen by ‘Last Night in Soho’ co-writer Krysty Wilson-Cairns (adapting the book ‘The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness, and Murder’ about the case by Charles Graeber) and ‘A Hijacking’s Tobias Lindholm.
While ‘The Good Nurse’ took a while to develop – even after attracting the likes of Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne to star – it’s finally headed to theaters and Netflix this October, with a new trailer now online.
As with the case, the plot follows Amy (Chastain), a compassionate nurse and single mother struggling with a life-threatening heart condition, who is stretched to her physical and emotional limits by the hard and demanding night shifts at the ICU.
(L to R) Eddie Redmayne as Charles "Charlie" Cullen, and Jessica Chastain as Amy Loughren in Netflix's 'The Good Nurse.'
But help arrives when Charlie (Redmayne), a thoughtful and empathetic fellow nurse, starts at her unit. While sharing long nights at the hospital, the two develop a strong and devoted friendship, and for the first time in years, Amy truly has faith in her and her young daughters’ future.
Yet after a series of mysterious patient deaths sets off an investigation that points to Charlie as the prime suspect, Amy is forced to risk her life and the safety of her children to uncover the truth…
“It’s about systems failing people,” Wilson-Cairns told Empire earlier this month. “In this case it’s healthcare systems, but systems failing us is very universal. The most terrifying thing about this story is that you could replace Charles Cullen with a virus. He’s this entity that wants to kill, and he was passed on from place to place.”
The cast for the movie includes Nnamdi Asomugha, Kim Dickens, Malik Yoba, Alix West Lefler and Noah Emmerich.
In keeping with other recent movies, Netflix is putting ‘The Good Nurse’ in theaters first, from October 19th, before the movie arrive on the streaming service October 26th.
(L to R) Eddie Redmayne as Charles "Charlie" Cullen, and Jessica Chastain as Amy Loughren in Netflix's 'The Good Nurse.'
Jessica Chastain as Amy Loughren in Netflix's 'The Good Nurse.'
Eddie Redmayne as Charles "Charlie" Cullen in Netflix's 'The Good Nurse.'
Eddie Redmayne as Charles "Charlie" Cullen in Netflix's 'The Good Nurse.'
(L to R) Jessica Chastain as Amy Loughren, Alix West Lefler, and Devyn McDowell in Netflix's 'The Good Nurse.'
Jessica Chastain as Amy Loughren in Netflix's 'The Good Nurse.'
(L to R) Noah Emmerich, Nnamdi Asomugha, and Jessica Chastain in Netflix's 'The Good Nurse.'
