{"id":269626,"date":"2026-02-05T22:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T22:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/269626\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T22:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T22:00:08","slug":"chris-hemsworth-joins-taron-egerton-in-new-york-crime-film-kockroach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/269626\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Hemsworth Joins Taron Egerton In New York Crime Film &#8216;Kockroach&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Thor and Mad Max star <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> is joining Taron Egerton and Zazie Beetz in New York crime pic <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/kockroach\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kockroach\" data-tag=\"kockroach\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kockroach<\/a>, from producer Andrew Lazar (American Sniper).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHemsworth takes over in the movie from fellow A-lister Channing Tatum who we\u2019re told has had to step away due to scheduling conflicts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFilming is being lined up for April on the movie, which Lazar has described as in the vein of\u00a0Goodfellas\u00a0and\u00a0Scarface. The synopsis reads: \u201cKockroach\u00a0is the story of a mysterious stranger who takes on New York\u2019s criminal underworld, transforming himself into a larger-than-life crime boss in a city where power is everything.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe feature adaptation of the novel by William Lashner is being directed by Matt Ross (Captain Fantastic) from a screenplay by Jonathan Ames (You Were Never Really Here) with revisions by Ross. Christina Weiss Lurie (Persuasion) will produce with Lazar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBlack Bear will continue selling international rights at the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/efm\/\" id=\"auto-tag_efm\" data-tag=\"efm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EFM<\/a>. CAA Media Finance and Range Select co-rep domestic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHeads of department include Colin Gibson, the production designer who won an Oscar for his work on\u00a0Mad Max: Fury Road; Emmy-winning cinematographer Adam Arkapaw, whose credits include\u00a0The Order,\u00a0The King, Macbeth, and the first seasons of\u00a0Top of the Lake\u00a0and\u00a0True Detective; and VFX Supervisor Jonathan Dearing, known for his work on\u00a0M3gan,\u00a0The Invisible Man, and\u00a0Upgrade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tUpcoming for Hemsworth are Amazon MGM\u2019s crime-thriller Crime 101, the Russo bros\u2019 Avengers: Doomsday and Amazon action pic Subversion. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He is repped by CAA and Greenberg Glusker.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Thor and Mad Max star Chris Hemsworth is joining Taron Egerton and Zazie Beetz in New York&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,6467,150930,156,152979,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-269626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-chris-hemsworth","10":"tag-efm","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-kockroach","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}