BEVERLY HILLS, California 鈥� Jonah Hill and Emma Stone are starring in a new TV series that tackles sensitive issues of mental illness and the pharmaceutical industry.
The Netflix series, a black comedy titled 鈥淢aniac,鈥� follows two participants of a murky late-stage pharmaceutical drug trial.
Hill plays a man diagnosed with schizophrenia, while Stone plays a woman fixated on broken relationships.
Both sign up to test a mysterious pill believed to cure anything about the mind, but things do not go as planned.
Cindy Holland, vice-president of Netflix original series, announced its debut date, Sept. 21, during a panel at the Television Critics Association鈥檚 summer meeting.
Holland called 鈥淢aniac鈥� a 鈥渢hought-provoking, fever dream of a show.鈥�
The actors starred opposite each other in the 2007 teen comedy 鈥淪uperbad.鈥�
