John Cusack to Lead Gillian Flynn's UTOPIA at Amazon

According to The Hollywood Reporter, John Cusack will lead Gillian Flynn's thriller "Utopia" at Amazon.

Utopia will be Cusack's (Grosse Point Blank, Say Anything) first commitment to series.

The nine-episode, straight-to-series project follows a group of young adults who "meet online and are mercilessly hunted by a shadowy deep state organization after they come into possession of a near mythical cult underground graphic novel. They discover the conspiracy theories in the comic's pages may actually be real and are forced into the dangerous, unique and ironic position of saving the world."

Cusack will play Dr. Kevin Christie. Charismatic and media-savvy, he has a brilliant biotech mind and a philanthropic outlook. Christie altruistically wants to change the world through science.

The cast also includes Sasha Lane, Rainn Wilson, Ashleigh LaThrop, Desmin Borges, Farrah Mackenzie and Christopher Denham.

Read the original story on The Hollywood Reporter.