EXCLUSIVE: Brian Tyree Henry is in ultimate negotiations to affix Julia Roberts, Elizabeth Olsen, and Eddie Redmayne in Panic Rigorously, writer-director Sam Esmail’s new paranoid thriller for Warner Bros.
Character particulars are underneath wraps, as is the logline. The movie is claimed to be within the vein of Esmail’s Mr. Robotic and The Silence of the Lambs and entails the hunt for a cyber terrorist.
Warner Bros received the venture in a bidding battle earlier this 12 months, partially resulting from its dedication to a theatrical run. Pic reunites Esmail with Roberts following Depart the World Behind, their apocalyptic thriller, which stands as Netflix’s fifth hottest English-language movie of all time.
Producers embrace Esmail and Chad Hamilton for E mail Corp., together with Scott Stuber, Roberts, Marisa Yeres Gill, and Lisa Gillan. Kevin McCormick and Chrystal Li are overseeing the venture for Warner Bros, with manufacturing to launch in England in January.
Coming off Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire and Transformers One, Henry will subsequent be seen starring in Rachel Morrison’s boxing drama The Fireplace Inside, which Amazon MGM Studios releases on Christmas Day. On March 14, he’ll be seen starring in Apple’s crime drama sequence Dope Thief, from government producer Ridley Scott, reverse Wagner Moura. Different upcoming tasks for the Oscar nominee embrace Michel Gondry’s Golden, a coming-of-age musical impressed by the childhood of Pharrell Williams, which Common releases on Could 9, the Moura-directed dramedy Final Night time on the Lobster, wherein he stars reverse Elisabeth Moss, and Spider-Man: Past the Spider-Verse, the place he voices Jefferson Davis.
Henry is represented by CAA, JWM Leisure Group, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
