{"id":712661,"date":"2026-06-03T13:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T13:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/712661\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T13:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T13:44:11","slug":"kockroach-first-look-at-chris-hemsworth-taron-egerton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/712661\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Kockroach&#8217;: First Look At Chris Hemsworth &#038; Taron Egerton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Below is your official first look at <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/chris-hemsworth\/\" id=\"auto-tag_chris-hemsworth\" data-tag=\"chris-hemsworth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Hemsworth<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/taron-egerton\/\" id=\"auto-tag_taron-egerton\" data-tag=\"taron-egerton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Taron Egerton<\/a> in crime-thriller <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/kockroach\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kockroach\" data-tag=\"kockroach\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kockroach<\/a>, which has wrapped filming in Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe New York-set crime pic, based on the William Lashner novel,\u00a0is the story of a mysterious stranger who takes on the city\u2019s criminal underworld, transforming himself into a larger-than-life boss in a city where power is everything. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRachel\u00a0Sennott, Zazie Beetz, Alec Baldwin and Brian Geraghty also star in Matt Ross\u2019 feature. Ross directs from a screenplay by Jonathan Ames (You Were Never Really Here) with revisions by Ross.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Kockroach.jpg\" alt=\"'Kockroach'\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"577\" width=\"1024\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\u2018Kockroach\u2019, credit: Brook Rushton.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBrook Rushton<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAndrew Lazar (American Sniper) and Christina Weiss Lurie (Persuasion) produce. Black Bear handles international rights. CAA Media Finance and Range Select co-rep domestic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLashner\u2019s novel is a re-imagining of Franz Kafka\u2019s classic story\u00a0Metamorphosis\u00a0in which a man wakes up to find that he has been transformed into a cockroach. We hear there\u2019s a fun and gory supernatural element to the movie, in which Hemsworth\u2019s character morphs from cockroach into gangster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHemsworth tweeted images of the shoot earlier this week and said the production was \u201cpossibly the most fun I\u2019ve had on a set\u201d and the project had \u201cone hell of a wild script\u201d:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">That\u2019s a wrap on our film Kockroach. Quite possibly the most fun I\u2019ve had on a set. Amazing cast and crew and one hell of a wild script! Can\u2019t wait for you to see it !! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TCTK1c6gqB\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/TCTK1c6gqB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chris Hemsworth (@chrishemsworth) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/chrishemsworth\/status\/2060931707226722540?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">May 31, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Below is your official first look at Chris Hemsworth and Taron Egerton in crime-thriller Kockroach, which has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,2021,134,346297,30148],"class_list":["post-712661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-chris-hemsworth","tag-entertainment","tag-kockroach","tag-taron-egerton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}