MGM+ orders The Black Tapes series starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
The eight-episode horror adaptation has the podcast’s creators on its writing team, with production scheduled to begin in Vancouver in January 2027.
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The eight-episode horror adaptation has the podcast’s creators on its writing team, with production scheduled to begin in Vancouver in January 2027.
MGM+ has ordered eight episodes of The Black Tapes, a supernatural investigation drama starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. Sosie Bacon has joined as co-lead, playing physicist Alex Regan opposite Coster-Waldau, Deadline said on 27 October.
Regan is a methodical physicist who teams up with Dr. Richard Strand, Coster-Waldau’s psychiatrist with a mysterious past. The pair set out to debunk cases involving hauntings, possessions, disappearances and sinister legends—the “black tapes” of the title.
In the story, their investigations uncover a hidden occult world and a centuries-old apocalyptic conspiracy. Bacon’s casting fills the other half of that central investigative partnership.
The series adapts the horror podcast created by Terry Miles and Paul Bae in 2015. NBC developed an earlier adaptation during the 2018–19 development cycle, but it did not reach the pilot, or test-episode, stage.
Coster-Waldau was nominated for an Emmy for playing Jaime Lannister in Game of Thrones.
Variety said on 26 October that MGM+ plans to release the series in eight countries—the US, UK, Ireland, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands—and Latin America.
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Miles and Bae are both writers and executive producers on the adaptation. John Rogers is also a writer and executive producer, and will serve as showrunner—the person overseeing the series’ writing and production. MGM+ Studios is producing the series.
Production is scheduled to begin in Vancouver in January 2027, ahead of release on MGM+.
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Sosie Bacon joins the cast as physicist Alex Regan, the investigative partner of Nikolaj Coster-Waldau’s psychiatrist Richard Strand.
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Adds the planned MGM+ release markets and the podcast’s more than 60 million downloads.