WATCH: Emma Stone, Jonah Hill star in upcoming series ‘Maniac’

MANILA, Philippines — The streaming giant Netflix on Tuesday released the trailer for the upcoming limited series “Maniac” starring Emma Stone and Jonah Hill.

The series set in a world somewhat like our world, in a time quite similar to our time, tells the stories of Annie Landsberg (Stone) and Owen Milgrim (Hill), two strangers drawn to the late stages of a mysterious pharmaceutical trial, each for their own reasons.

"Maniac" is written by Patrick Somerville and directed by Cary Fukunaga. It also casts Justin Theroux and Sally Field.

In the series, Annie’s disaffected and aimless, fixated on broken relationships with her mother and her sister; Owen, the fifth son of wealthy New York industrialists, has struggled his whole life with a disputed diagnosis of schizophrenia.

Neither of their lives have turned out quite right, and the promise of a new, radical kind of pharmaceutical treatment—a sequence of pills its inventor, Dr. James K. Mantleray (Theroux), claims can repair anything about the mind.

He said he can heal even mental illness or heartbreak. He and ten other strangers were drawn to the facilities of Neberdine Pharmaceutical and Biotech for a three-day drug trial that will, they’re assured, with no complications or side-effects whatsoever, solve all of their problems, permanently.  

However, things do not go as planned.

Watch the trailer of “Maniac” which will debut globally on Netflix on September 21: