EXCLUSIVE: Below is your first look at Chris Hemsworth and Taron Egerton in crime-thriller Kockroach, which has wrapped filming in Australia.
The New York-set crime pic, based on the William Lashner novel, is the story of a mysterious stranger who takes on the city’s criminal underworld, transforming himself into a larger-than-life boss in a city where power is everything.
Rachel Sennott, Zazie Beetz, Alec Baldwin and Brian Geraghty also star in Matt Ross’ feature. Ross directs from a screenplay by Jonathan Ames (You Were Never Really Here) with revisions by Ross.
‘Kockroach’, credit: Brook Rushton.
Brook Rushton
Andrew Lazar (American Sniper) and Christina Weiss Lurie (Persuasion) produce. Black Bear handles international rights. CAA Media Finance and Range Select co-rep domestic.
Lashner’s novel is a re-imagining of Franz Kafka’s classic story Metamorphosis in which a man wakes up to find that he has been transformed into a cockroach. We hear there’s a fun and gory supernatural element to the movie, in which Hemsworth’s character morphs from cockroach into gangster.
