Taron Egerton has signed on to star within the Baltasar Kormákur / Netflix survival thriller Apex with Charlize Theron
Again in July, it was introduced that Charlize Theron (Mad Max: Fury Street) was signing on to star in a survival thriller known as Apex for the Netflix streaming service, with Baltasar Kormákur (Contraband) on board to direct the movie from a screenplay by Jeremy Robbins, who earned writing credit on many episodes of the TV sequence The Purge (set on the planet of the Blumhouse movie franchise). Now, The Hollywood Reporter has damaged the information that Theron is being joined within the forged by Taron Egerton, whose credit embrace Kingsman: The Secret Service, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, and Rocketman.
A style film that has been described as “Free Solo meets Silence of the Lambs,” Apex will see Theron taking over the function of a rock climber and adrenaline junkie who finds out that nature isn’t the one harmful ingredient out to get her when she units out on an expedition within the wild. Egerton’s character is alleged to be a psychopath stalking his human prey… with Theron’s character being his prey. The title is a play on an apex being the highest or highest a part of one thing (like a cliff) and a very harmful predator within the wild.
Theron is producing the movie with Daybreak Olmstead, Beth Kono, and AJ Dix underneath their recently-launched Secret Menu banner. Kormákur is producing for RVK Productions. Different producers embrace Ian Bryce and Chernin Entertainment’s Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, and David Prepared.
Theron has beforehand labored with Netflix on the graphic novel-inspired movies The Previous Guard and The Previous Guard 2… and regardless that The Previous Guard 2 made it via manufacturing some time in the past, we’re nonetheless ready to listen to a launch date for that one. Theron just lately informed Selection why the film acquired caught on a shelf: “Netflix went through quite a changeover. We got kind of stuck in that and our post-production shut down, I think, five weeks into it. They were going through a lot of changes, and I totally understand it. We finally picked it back up and I’m really excited about it. It’s really good. It’s a really important film to us. I only wanted to do it if we could make it amazing. I really love this movie.” She stated the film will probably be launched “soon,” and clearly she has no laborious emotions in regards to the delay, since she’s collaborating with Netflix once more on Apex.
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