Marvel actor Chris Hemsworth has signed on to star in an action flick that will take place aboard a submarine for Amazom MGM Studios. The film, titled Subversion, has hired Patrick Vollrath (7500) to direct from a script by Andrew Ferguson, with Di Bonaventura Pictures producing.
The film follows a once-promising Naval commander (Chris Hemsworth) who is blackmailed by a cartel-like operation into piloting a dangerous submarine carrying illegal cargo across international waters, thrusting him into a high-stakes game of cat and mouse, outmaneuvering blockades, and navigating perilous threats both in and outside of the submarine.
The project reunites Hemsworth with Amazon MGM Studios as he’s also starring in Crime 101 for writer-director Bart Layton alongside Mark Ruffalo, Barry Keoghan, Halle Berry, and Monica Barbaro, which is set to be released theatrically next year. The film also reunites four-time Black List honoree Ferguson with the studio, where his script Blood Rush is in development.
Coming off of projects like Extraction II, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga — where he gave a career-best performance as Dementus — and Transformers One, Hemsworth is confirmed to reprise his role as Thor in Avengers: Doomsday, which also hits theaters in 2026.
Other projects to which he’s recently been linked include an Untitled Transformers/G.I. Joe Crossover at Paramount and a Prince Charming movie that Paul King is expected to direct for Disney, if the studio doesn’t completely back off from its strategy of mining animated IP for live-action films, in the wake of Snow White.
via: Deadline
