White Noise is a 2022 apocalyptic black comedy film written and directed by Noah Baumbach, adapted from the 1985 novel of the same name by Don DeLillo. It is Baumbach's eleventh narrative feature film and the first not to be based on an original story of his own. The film stars Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Raffey Cassidy, André Benjamin, Alessandro Nivola, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Don Cheadle. White Noise had its world premiere at the 79th Venice International Film Festival on August 31, 2022, and is scheduled to be released in select cinemas on November 25, 2022, before its streaming release on December 30, 2022, by Netflix. Premise. Jack Gladney, professor of Hitler studies at the College-on-the-Hill, husband to Babette and father to four children, is torn asunder by "the Airborne Toxic Event", a cataclysmic train accident that casts chemical waste over his town. Cast. Adam Driver as Prof. Jack Gladney, Greta Gerwig as Babette Gladney, Raffey Cassidy as Denise, André Benjamin as Elliot Lasher, Jodie Turner-Smith as Winnie Richards, Don Cheadle as Prof. Murray Siskind, Lars Eidinger as Arlo Shell, Sam Nivola as Heinrich, and May Nivola as Steffie.