‘Apex’ Image Gallery Plays a Game of Cat and Mouse

Drawing on the classic 1932 film The Most Dangerous Game, where humans are hunted for sport, Netflix tracks down Charlize Theron for Apex, which joins the streaming service on April 24.

In the survival thriller, Theron plays a grieving woman seeking solace in the Australian wilderness who is hunted by a ruthless serial killer, played by Taron Egerton. 

The previously released trailer leaned heavily into familiar slasher territory, drawing from Friday the 13th, Wolf Creek, Deliverance, Ready or Not, and, most obviously, The Most Dangerous Game. It feels squarely in line with Netflix’s more formula-driven thrillers – safe and recognizable, but still positioned to deliver a tense, entertaining ride.

Eric Bana (Deliver Us from Evil) also stars.

“The environment, the geography where you make the film, it starts to inform the story and vice versa. Space and weather and landscape are a character in films. It’s very important to me to use it,” Kormákur previously told Empire Magazine. “I try to drag the cast through hell — because they have to experience it!”

“[Kormákur] was always the first one to fucking do the craziest thing that he was asking us to do,” Theron adds. “He knew what I was capable of. You want someone that can push you to a level that you can’t take yourself.”

Apex is rated “R” for “some strong violence, grisly images, nudity, and language.”

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