{"id":23007,"date":"2025-10-30T19:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T19:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/23007\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T19:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T19:50:10","slug":"taron-egerton-joins-channing-tatum-in-new-york-crime-film-kockroach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/23007\/","title":{"rendered":"Taron Egerton Joins Channing Tatum In New York Crime Film ‘Kockroach’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Golden Globe winner Taron Egerton<\/a> (Carry-On) is joining Channing Tatum and Zazie Beetz in\u00a0Kockroach<\/a>, the New York crime pic heralding from producers Andrew Lazar (American Sniper) and Kevin Frakes (Hereditary). <\/p>\n

\n\tEgerton takes over in the movie from Oscar Isaac who was announced in late August but is out due to scheduling conflicts.<\/p>\n

\n\tLazar today described the film as in the vein of Goodfellas and Scarface. The synopsis reads: \u201cKockroach is 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

\n\tThe feature adaptation of the novel by William Lashner is in pre-production with filming scheduled to begin in February in Australia.\u00a0Matt Ross (Captain Fantastic) will direct from a screenplay by Jonathan Ames (You Were Never Really Here) with revisions by Ross.<\/p>\n

\n\tBlack Bear will continue selling international rights at the upcoming AFM. CAA Media Finance and Range Select co-rep domestic. <\/p>\n

\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 Top of the Lake and True Detective; and VFX Supervisor Jonathan Dearing, known for his work on\u00a0M3gan,\u00a0The Invisible Man, and\u00a0Upgrade.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI couldn\u2019t be more excited to welcome Taron to Kockroach and to see him team up with Channing and Zazie in this fresh and bold take on the gangster genre. Under the extraordinary talent of director Matt Ross, Kockroach will push boundaries and expectations in the same ways as such seminal films as Scarface and Goodfellas. I\u2019m also thrilled to see our incredible creative team coming together. Academy Award-winning production designer Colin Gibson, DP Adam Arkapaw, and VFX Supervisor Jonathan Dearing,\u201d said Lazar.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tKingsman, Rocketman, Black Bird and Carry-On star Egerton was most recently seen in Apple TV series Smoke and crime pic She Rides Shotgun.<\/p>\n

\n\tEgerton is repped by Range Media Partners, United Agents and Sloane, Offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Golden Globe winner Taron Egerton (Carry-On) is joining Channing Tatum and Zazie Beetz in\u00a0Kockroach, the New York…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15127,9,11,10,15128],"class_list":{"0":"post-23007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-kockroach","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-news","12":"tag-taron-egerton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}