Denzel Washington, Robert Pattinson and Daisy Edgar-Jones will star in Here Comes the Flood, a Simon Kinberg-penned crime thriller that Fernando Meirelles will direct for Netflix.
Meirelles is also producing the feature with Oscar nominee Kinberg and Audrey Chon, the latter two via their Genre Films banner.
Netflix picked up the original screenplay in 2020, making a splashy seven-figure deal to win a heated spec script auction. It was a markedly different era, with the streaming wars in full swing and the streamer’s film unit being run by Scott Stuber, who always had Netflix’s wallet open. Still, the project survived (at one point Jason Bateman was in talks to direct an iteration but a deal never took), and now five years later has attracted top-shelf talent.
Logline details are being kept in the dark, but Flood is being described as an unconventional heist movie about a bank guard, a teller and a master thief in a deadly game of cons and double crosses. The story is said to unfold in a non-linear fashion.
Samson Mucke is exec producing.
Meirelles earned a best director Oscar nomination for his 2002 Brazilian crime masterpiece City of God. Among his other credits are the thriller The Constant Gardner and The Two Popes, the latter of which he made for Netflix and earned three Oscar nominations, for actor, supporting actor and adapted screenplay.
Edgar-Jones broke out with the romantic drama series Normal People and starred in Sony’s Where the Crawdads Sing film. She last starred with Glen Powell in last year’s hit disaster movie Twisters.
Washington last starred in Gladiator II and next toplines Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest, a remake of an Akira Kurosawa thriller that hails from Apple and A24. That movie will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival before hitting theaters on Aug. 22.
Pattinson can next be seen opposite Jennifer Lawrence in director Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love, premiering at Cannes this month, and in Kristoffer Borgli’s The Drama alongside Zendaya. He led Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17, released earlier this year, and is currently in production on Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey.
Washington is repped by WME, Edgar-Jones by UTA and Hamilton Hodell and Meirelles by LBI and Goodman Genow. Pattinson is repped by 3 Arts, WME, Curtis Brown Group, Sloane Offer and Narrative.
