Netflix’s upcoming thriller Apex, described as Free Solo meets Silence of the Lambs, will star Charlize Theron. Per Deadline, Theron will likely be joined by actor Taron Egerton within the intense thriller.
Baltasar Kormákur (Contact) is ready to direct Apex.
Written by Jeremy Robbins (“The Purge” tv sequence), the movie “follows a rock climber who finds herself being hunted within the wild.” Robbins’ spec script was chosen as a part of 2021’s The Black Checklist, an annual buzzy compendium of the yr’s most-liked unproduced Hollywood screenplays.
The spec script logline for Apex: “When an adrenaline junkie units out to overcome a menacing river, she discovers that nature isn’t the one factor out for blood.“ In different phrases, one lady finds herself stalked by an Apex predator, solely this time of the human selection. And it sounds prefer it’ll be very intense.
“Netflix execs had been so blown away by the script that they purchased with solely the producers on board. When it got here to an actor and director, Theron and Kormákur had been their first selections, and in one other uncommon case each dedicated after studying the script,“ Deadline beforehand reported.
Taron Egerton broke out with Matthew Vaughn’s comedian e book adaptation The Kingsman: The Secret Service and is ready to seem in Jaume Collet-Serra’s Netflix thriller Carry-On, arriving subsequent month on the streaming service.
Theron will produce the undertaking together with Daybreak Olmstead, Beth Kono, and AJ Dix by way of their newly launched media firm, in addition to Kormákur via his RVK productions; Ian Bryce; and Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, and David Prepared by way of via Chernin Leisure.
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