Ozark is a television drama series created by Bill Dubuque that is slated to debut in the latter half of 2017 on Netflix. The first series will comprise ten one-hour episodes and will be produced by Media Rights Capital. Jason Bateman will star in the series and will direct half of the episodes. Bateman will play a man who moves from a city to the Ozarks and who must pay off a debt to a Mexican drug lord, with Laura Linney playing his wife.