EXCLUSIVE: Under is your first take a look at Chris Hemsworth and Taron Egerton in crime-thriller Kockroach, which has wrapped filming in Australia.
The New York-set crime pic, primarily based on the William Lashner novel, is the story of a mysterious stranger who takes on town’s prison underworld, reworking himself right into a larger-than-life boss in a metropolis the place energy is every little thing.
Rachel Sennott, Zazie Beetz, Alec Baldwin and Brian Geraghty additionally star in Matt Ross’ characteristic. Ross directs from a screenplay by Jonathan Ames (You Have been By no means Actually Right here) with revisions by Ross.
‘Kockroach’, credit score: Brook Rushton.
Brook Rushton
Andrew Lazar (American Sniper) and Christina Weiss Lurie (Persuasion) produce. Black Bear handles worldwide rights. CAA Media Finance and Vary Choose co-rep home.
Lashner’s novel is a re-imagining of Franz Kafka’s basic story Metamorphosis through which a person wakes as much as discover that he has been reworked right into a cockroach. We hear there’s a enjoyable and gory supernatural factor to the film, through which Hemsworth’s character morphs from cockroach into gangster.
