The Night Agent’s Gabriel Basso is directing Iconoclast, “Taxi Driver for the internet age”

For two seasons, Netflix subscribers have been watching Gabriel Basso bring FBI agent Peter Sutherland to life on the action thriller series The Night Agent. There’s a third season on the way and all of the episodes have already wrapped production – but while fans wait to find out when they’ll have the chance to watch the new season, Basso is working on another project: his feature directorial debut, a psychological thriller called Iconoclast, which is described as being “Taxi Driver for the internet age.”

It’s always nice to dream big, but describing a movie as heir to the Taxi Driver throne may be asking for too much.

Basso has also written the screenplay for Iconoclast, which follows a reclusive young man whose dangerous obsession with a live-streaming influencer increasingly erodes his grip on reality.

Filming is underway, and Deadline reports that Basso stars alongside Courtney Eaton (Yellowjackets), Noah Centineo (Warfare), and Rain Spencer (The Summer I Turned Pretty).

Alex Lebovici is producing and financing through his Hammerstone Studios banner, which has previously brought us the likes of Barbarian, Flight Risk, and Don’t Move. Centineo and Enzo Marc are producing for Arkhum Productions, while Paul Bernard does the same for McGuffin Entertainment. Basso is also a producer on the project. Ibrahim Mohammed and Chase Vergari of Script 2 Screen Capital serve as executive producers with Kevin G. Lee of Astria Studios and Alex Kaplunov.

In addition to The Night Agent, Basso’s acting credits include Renny Harlin’s The Strangers: Chapter 1 and The Strangers: Chapter 2, Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite, Clint Eastwood’s Juror #2, the TV series The Big C, Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ The Kings of Summer, and the project that I’m most familiar with him from, J.J. Abrams Super 8. He also starred in Ron Howard’s Hillbilly Elegy, where he played a young version of the current Vice President of the United States, JD Vance.

Are you a Gabriel Basso fan, and are you interested to see what he’s doing with Iconoclast? Do you want to see a “Taxi Driver for the internet age”? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

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