Shubhabrata Dutta
Will Poulter’s next project will make the Empire State his ground zero. The filming of ‘Beat The Reaper,’ an Apple TV+ medical drama series, will take place in New York this summer. The show is based on the debut novel of the same name by Josh Bazell, which came out in 2009. Sam Catlin adapted the novel for the small screen and will serve as showrunner. Leslye Headland will direct.
The story follows Dr. Peter Brown (Poulter), an intern at Manhattan’s worst hospital, with a talent for medicine, a shift from hell, and a past he’d prefer to keep hidden. Whether it’s a blocked circumflex artery or a plan to land a massive malpractice suit, he knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men. Pietro “Bearclaw” Brnwna is a hitman for the mob, with a genius for violence, a well-earned fear of sharks, and an overly close relationship with the Federal Witness Relocation Program. More likely to leave a trail of dead gangsters than a molecule of evidence, he’s the last person you want to see in your hospital room.
Nicholas LoBrutto, aka Eddy Squillante, is Dr. Brown’s new patient, with three months to live and a very strange idea: that Peter Brown and Pietro Brnwa might-just might-be the same person. Now, with the mob, the government, and death itself descending on the hospital, Peter has to buy time and do whatever it takes to keep his patients, himself, and his last shot at redemption alive. To get through the next eight hours and somehow beat the reaper.
Will Poulter’s latest credits include Chef Luca in FX’s ‘The Bear,’ Lieutenant Erik in Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland’s war film ‘Warfare,’ and Shephard in Alex Scharfman’s fantasy drama ‘Death of a Unicorn.’ His upcoming movies include Boots Riley’s ‘I Love Boosters,’ which follows a group of shoplifters who take aim at a cutthroat fashion maven, and Adam Meeks’s ‘Union County,’ which centers on a man named Cody Parsons (Poulter), who is part of a county-mandated drug court program amidst the opioid epidemic in rural Ohio. While ‘I Love Boosters’ will be released on May 22, 2026, ‘Union County’ awaits a theatrical release date.
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