The Hollywood Reporter has brought word that Netflix’s upcoming social media thriller Clickbait has begun building its cast with the additions of Zoe Kazan (Wildlife), Betty Gabriel (Get Out), Adrian Grenier (Entourage) and Phoenix Raei.
The series is being produced by NBCUniversal International Studios, Tony Ayres Productions and Heyday Television, and is the first Netflix original to be produced in the Australian state of Victoria, with form both the the state and federal governments helping to fund the series.
The series, created by Tony Ayres (The Slap) and Christian White, will explore how people’s most dangerous and uncontrolled impulses are fueled in the age of social media and reveals the ever-widening fractures between virtual and real-life personas.
It is the first Netflix original to be produced in the Australian state of Victoria, with funding from both the state and federal governments there.