Taron Egerton to Star Opposite Charlize Theron in Netflix’s ‘Apex’

Netflix’s upcoming thriller Apex, described as Free Solo meets Silence of the Lambs, will star Charlize Theron. Per Deadline, Theron will be joined by actor Taron Egerton in the intense thriller.

Baltasar Kormákur (Touch) is set to direct Apex.

Written by Jeremy Robbins (“The Purge” television series), the film “follows a rock climber who finds herself being hunted in the wild.” Robbins’ spec script was selected as part of 2021’s The Black List, an annual buzzy compendium of the year’s most-liked unproduced Hollywood screenplays.

The spec script logline for Apex: “When an adrenaline junkie sets out to conquer a menacing river, she discovers that nature isn’t the only thing out for blood.“ In other words, one woman finds herself stalked by an Apex predator, only this time of the human variety. And it sounds like it’ll be very intense.

“Netflix execs were so blown away by the script that they bought with only the producers on board. When it came to an actor and director, Theron and Kormákur were their first choices, and in another rare case both committed after reading the script,