{"id":517707,"date":"2026-03-06T07:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T07:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/517707\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T07:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T07:47:08","slug":"f1-actress-callie-cooke-female-lead-in-keanu-reeves-sci-fi-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/517707\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 Actress Callie Cooke Female Lead In Keanu Reeves Sci-Fi Action"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tCallie Cooke, who played the struggling pit stop tire gunner in Brad Pitt\u2019s racing movie F1, has landed the female lead opposite Keanu Reeves<\/a> in Warner Bros.\u2019 untitled action movie being directed by Tim Miller<\/a>.
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Nicholas Duvernay, Steven Waddington, Abraham Popoola, Bobby Holland Hanton and Anastasia Safonov have also joined the call sheet for the feature that began production this week.
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The water-centric feature, which was titled Shiver when Warners picked it up last fall<\/a> and is now simply being referred to as the untitled Tim Miller\/Keanu Reeves film, is shooting in the Dominican Republic and using massive water tanks for the sea-set sequences before moving to the U.K.
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Ian Shorr wrote the script for\u00a0Shiver, which has been described as having shades of\u00a0Edge of Tomorrow, the Tom Cruise sci-fi movie about a soldier trapped in a time loop during an alien invasion, and\u00a0The Shallows, the Blake Lively shark survival movie.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe story sees a smuggler (Reeves) trapped in a time loop after a deadly double-cross while on a job in the Caribbean Sea, resulting in him surrounded by bodies, hostile mercenaries and thirsty sharks alike.
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Cooke is the movie\u2019s female lead, a scientist. The other actors are playing characters ranging from shipmates to mercenaries.
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Matthew Vaughn, Aaron Ryder, Andrew Swett and John Zaozirny are producing. Scott Lumpkin is exec producing.
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Warners has set an Aug. 13, 2027, release date.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tFrom left: Nicholas Duvernay, Steven Waddington, Abraham Popoola, Bobby Holland Hanton and Anastasia Safonov<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMichael Buckner\/WWD\/Getty Images; Gareth Cattermole\/Getty Images; Kevin Winter\/Getty Images; ITLESS WITH CHRIS HEMSWORTH streams on Disney+ November 16. (Photo by Monica Schipper\/Getty Images; Dimitrios Kambouris\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\n\tOn top of F1, Cooke is known for her role as \u201cEsther\u201d in the popular BBC comedy series\u00a0Cheaters,\u00a0and in 2024 she guest-led an episode of Doctor Who\u00a0opposite Ncuti Gatwa for BBC\/Disney+.\u00a0She is repped by Curtis Brown and Jackoway Austen.
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Duvernay was recently seen in the third season of the Emmy\u2011nominated HBO series\u00a0The White Lotus. He has several projects on the way, among them Hulu series Not Suitable for Work, created by Mindy Kaling, Universal\u2019s romantic drama \u00a0Reminders of Him, based on Colleen Hoover\u2019s bestselling novel, and Amazon\/MGM\u2019s film\u00a0The Love Hypothesis, opposite Lili Reinhart and Tom Bateman. Duvernay is repped by UTA, Rebel Creative Group and Yorn Levine.
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Waddington currently stars as the ruthless \u201cEarl of Huntington\u201d in\u00a0Robin Hood\u00a0for Lionsgate TV\/MGM+. Other credits include the Apple TV+ series\u00a0Slow Horses\u00a0and\u00a0The Last of the Mohicans\u00a0for Twentieth Century Fox.\u00a0He is repped by 42 Management & Production.\u00a0
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Popoola\u2019s recent credits include Slow Horses\u00a0for Apple TV+, Netflix sci-fi action flick\u00a0Atlas\u00a0opposite Jennifer Lopez, and John Wick spinoff\u00a0Ballerina\u00a0for Lionsgate.\u00a0Popoola is repped by IAG, Artists First, Independent Talent and Gang, Tyre.
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Hanton is mainly known for his stunt work, with recent credits including\u00a0Now You See Me: Now You Don\u2019t\u00a0for Lionsgate, Universal\u2019s\u00a0Argylle and Disney\u2019s\u00a0Thor: Love and Thunder. Upcoming films include the\u00a0Untitled Jack Ryan Project\u00a0and\u00a0School Fight.\u00a0He is repped by Project.<\/p>\n

\n\tSafonov appears in Jamie Marshall\u2019s upcoming feature Eternity opposite William H. Macy and Greg Kinnear and will be seen in the indie\u00a0Floating Carousel\u00a0directed by Delilah Napier.\u00a0She is repped by
by Seven Summits Pictures & Management and Schreck Rose.
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