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Ripley is an 8 episode TV Series filmed entirely in Black and White and streaming on Netflix on April 4, 2024.      

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The Tom Ripley book series by Patricia Highsmith includes The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955), Ripley Under Ground (1970), Ripley’s Game (1974), The Boy Who Followed Ripley (1980), and Ripley Under Water (1991). Each book has the potential to be an 8 episode TV season. There was a 1960's French-language movie adaptation of The Talented Mister Ripley starring Alain Delon entitled Purple Moon. The Talented Mr. Ripley was made into a 1999 feature film starring Matt Damon as Tom Ripley, Jude Law as Dickie Greenleaf, Gwyneth Paltrow as Marge Sherwood, Cate Blanchett as Meredith Logue, and Philip Seymour Hoffman as Freddie Miles. Ripley's Game movie adaptations include 1977's The American Friend, starring Dennis Hopper and 2002's Ripley's Game, starring John Malkovich. In 2005, Barry Pepper played Tom Ripley in the movie Ripley Under Ground. 

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Tom Ripley, a grifter scraping by in early 1960s New York, is hired by Herbert Greenleaf, a wealthy shipbuilder to travel to Italy to try to convince his vagabond son to return home and accept a postion in the family business. Tom’s acceptance of the job is the first step into a complex life of deceit, fraud and murder.

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Andrew Scott as Tom Ripley, an untrustworthy liar who takes advantage of people

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Johnny Flynn as Dickie Greenleaf, a vagabond artist living in Italy

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Dakota Fanning as Marjorie "Marge" Sherwood, Dickie’s glamorous girlfriend 

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Eliot Sumner as Freddie Miles, a friend of Dickie's who quickly grows wary of Tom's motives

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Maurizio Lombardi as Inspector Pietro Ravini (Tenente Roverini, in the book) Italian Police investigator

Francesca Romana Bergamo as Ermelinda
 
John Malkovich as Reeves Minot, a mysterious man with criminal involvements in Europe, who befriends Tom 

Margherita Buy as Signora Buffi, Tom’s landlady in Rome

Kenneth Lonergan as Mr. Greenleaf, Dickie’s father

Ann Cusack as Mrs. Greenleaf, Dickie’s mother

Bokeem Woodbine
 

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