The ocean of television memory holds a few fixtures, and among them sail Charlie Heaton and Mackenzie Davis, stalwarts of specific, now iconic roles. Heaton has long brooded across Hawkins as Jonathan Byers, the only man on television who could make developing photos in a dark room look like therapy. Meanwhile, Davis reprogrammed viewers’ brains as Cameron Howe in Halt and Catch Fire
, a cyberpunk tornado in a leather jacket. But now, the duo are trading circuits and shadows for something far more submerged.
Prepare for a plunge into suspense, as Davis and Heaton resurface together in Jesse McKeown’s brand new underwater series.
Mackenzie Davis and Charlie Heaton trade tech and monsters for murky waters
Mackenzie Davis and Charlie Heaton are officially headed into murky waters, literally. The actors have boarded a new limited series set off the coast of Newfoundland, where the local fish may not be the biggest problem. The untitled six-episode drama, helmed by Jesse McKeown of The Umbrella Academy
and 19-2
fame, centers around a seaside community under siege from a cryptic sea creature. Davis and Heaton will reportedly join Josh Hartnett, who leads the narrative and the harpoon charge.
Mackenzie Davis and Charlie Heaton will join Josh Hartnett in a new limited series set in Newfoundland — centering on a hard-bitten fisherman who discovers that his hometown is being terrorized by a mysterious creature. pic.twitter.com/iivvQwhc0k
— Netflix (@netflix) July 1, 2025
Josh Hartnett, fresh from Oppenheimer
and Trap
, portrays a rugged fisherman tasked with fending off the ocean’s latest PR nightmare. Also serving as an executive producer, Hartnett dives in as the community’s unlikely protector while Heaton and Davis lend their faces, and likely their screams, to the unfolding chaos. With McKeown steering the helm, this aquatic venture promises suspense, salt spray, and the kind of dread that no tide chart can predict.
With so little known about their characters, and their roles being a mystery, fans can not help but wonder what the trio’s dynamic will be in the coming Netflix series.
Three faces, one mission, or maybe not
With Josh Hartnett confirmed as the grizzled fisherman, all eyes now shift to the great unknown: who, or what, will Mackenzie Davis and Charlie Heaton, who has also been casted in Industry
season 4
, be playing? Possibilities are as vast as the sea itself. Davis could be a local scientist with a love for marine biology and mild existential dread. Heaton might be the town’s brooding bait-boy or, given his vibe, perhaps even the misunderstood sea creature itself. The casting is deliciously cryptic, and viewers are already overthinking it.
Mackenzie Davis (Speak No Evil) and Charlie Heaton (Stranger Things) joins Josh Hartnett in the cast of @netflix‘s Untitled Newfoundland Limited Series
source: Deadline pic.twitter.com/pyI5hipUfN
— josh hartnett files (@hartnettfiles) July 1, 2025
The trio’s dynamic could teeter anywhere between romantic entanglement and full-blown creature feature chaos. Imagine a love triangle with one party potentially covered in scales. Or perhaps they are simply friends, if Newfoundland television thrillers allow such optimism. Whatever direction the tide takes, this cast promises tension, intensity, and a shared willingness to get very, very wet for dramatic effect.
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