Denzel Washington, Robert Pattinson, and Daisy Edgar-Jones are set to star in Here Comes the Flood, a new Netflix heist film from Fernando Meirelles, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind the streamer’s lauded drama The Two Popes.
The news emerged from Netflix’s Upfront presentation on Wednesday.
Written by Simon Kinberg (Mr. & Mrs. Smith), the film is described as an unconventional heist flick about a bank guard, a teller, and a master thief in a deadly game of cons and double crosses.
Kinberg and Audrey Chon will produce for Genre Films, alongside Meirelles, with Samson Mucke exec producing.
Coming off of lauded turns in Gladiator II and The Tragedy of Macbeth, Washington will next be seen leading Spike Lee’s crime thriller Highest 2 Lowest, based on Akira Kurosawa’s classic High and Low, which A24 releases in August, ahead of the film’s Apple TV+ streaming date of September 5.
Pattinson will next be seen starring alongside Jennifer Lawrence in Lynne Ramsay’s Die, My Love, which is premiering at Cannes. Currently, he’s in production on Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, and he also has Kristoffer Borgli’s The Drama, in which he stars opposite Zendaya, coming up.
Since breaking out with Hulu’s acclaimed Irish drama Normal People, Edgar-Jones has bolstered her star status with projects like Under the Banner of Heaven and Where the Crawdads Sing, most recently starring in Twisters opposite Glen Powell and romantic drama On Swift Horses. Next, she’ll be seen starring opposite Michelle Williams in A Place in Hell from Fair Play filmmaker Chloe Domont.
Meirelles’ last film The Two Popes, starring Jonathan Pryce and Anthony Hopkins, garnered Oscar noms for both actors’ performances, as well as Best Adapted Screenplay, in 2020. Also known for titles like City of God and The Constant Gardener, his recent TV work includes Sugar and The Sympathizer.
Writer-producer Kinberg exec produced Apple’s Sugar and has also recently worked on Apple’s series Invasion, along with films like The 355 and Deadpool & Wolverine.
Washington is repped by WME; Pattinson by 3 Arts, WME, Curtis Brown Group, and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern; Edgar-Jones by Hamilton Hodell, UTA, and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern; Meirelles by LBI Entertainment, O2 Filmes, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman; and Kinberg by CAA and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
