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Zac Efron Leads HBO/A24’s Supernatural Paparazzo Thriller.

5/29/2026

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Zac Efron Leads Series

Zac Efron will star in and executive produce the Angel Heart series for HBO and A24.
Zach Baylin, creator of Black Rabbit, will write and executive produce the one-hour drama.
The series adapts the 1978 horror novel Falling Angel and its sequel Angel’s Inferno.
The plot follows a down-and-out NYC paparazzo hired to find a missing woman amid elite and supernatural cover-ups.

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Parker Courtes De Niro

Alan Parker (director) directed 1987 film Angel Heart, starring Mickey Rourke (actor), Robert De Niro (actor) and Lisa Bonet (actress).
Parker (director) met De Niro (actor) at Lanza’s in New York’s Lower East Side, where De Niro read the script before agreeing, reading screenplay on a Harlem church floor.
Parker (director) wrote an essay stating he courted De Niro (actor) for months and noting the film uses William Hjortsberg’s (author) 1978 novels Falling Angel and Angel’s Inferno.

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Zac Efron Expands

HBO and A24 partnered to produce Angel Heart after The Sympathizer starring Robert Downey Jr.
Zach Baylin, Emmy-nominated for Netflix’s Black Rabbit with Jude Law, leads the Angel Heart writing team.
Baylin’s Apple spec on Lance Armstrong, directed by Ed Berger and starring Austin Butler, expands his sports-biopic portfolio.
Zac Efron’s third A24 film follows The Iron Claw, with upcoming titles for him including Famous with Phoebe Dynevor and Judgement Day opposite Will Ferrell.
Director Jonathan van Tulleken, known for Shogun, will helm Apple TV’s Cape Fear and Lucky.

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Zac Efron Leads Series

Zac Efron will star in and executive produce the Angel Heart series for HBO and A24.
Zach Baylin, creator of Black Rabbit, will write and executive produce the one-hour drama.
The series adapts the 1978 horror novel Falling Angel and its sequel Angel’s Inferno.
The plot follows a down-and-out NYC paparazzo hired to find a missing woman amid elite and supernatural cover-ups.

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