Jeffrey Wright
, Alexander
Skarsgard
and James Badge Dale will star in
Hold the Dark
, Netflix’s adventure thriller from director Jeremy
Saulnier
.
Riley
Keough
and James
Bloor
are also cast in the project, which is
Saulnier’s
follow-up to his acclaimed Anton
Yelchin
thriller
Green Room
.
Dark
adapts the book by William
Giraldi
and is set in a remote Alaskan wilderness in which wolves have taken and killed children. A wolf-expert biologist is called in to investigate, but finds himself in between a secret-harboring mother, who disappears, and her husband, who goes on a maniacal spree when he returns from Iraq and learns of his son’s death. White, cold snow runs red with hot blood.
Wright will play the biologist caught up in the spree, while Badge Dale is a detective who wants to catch the husband, to be played by
Skarsgard
.
Keough
will play the mother and
Bloor
a creepy drifter.
The movie is looking at shooting in Alberta, Canada, in March.
Macon Blair wrote the script. Producing are Russell Ackerman and John
Schoenfelder
, as well as Eva Maria Daniels,
Anish
Savjani
and Neil
Kopp
.
CAA-repped
Wright is one of the stars of HBO’s
Westworld
and appeared in the
Hunger Games
movies.
Skarsgard
last year starred as Tarzan in
The Legend of Tarzan
and appears opposite Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon in HBO’s
Big Little Lies
. He is
repped
by
CAA
and Hansen Jacobson.
Badge Dale was part of Michael Bay’s
13 Hours
and recently wrapped
The Empty Man
, Fox’s adaptation of a Boom! comic. He is
repped
by
CAA
and
MJ
Management.
Keough
, who appeared in
Mad Max: Fury Road
, has two films recently wrapped: noir thriller
Under the Silver Lake
by
It Follows
filmmaker David Robert Mitchell and
Logan Lucky
from Steven
Soderbergh
. She is
repped
by
WME
.
Bloor
,
repped
by
CAA
and Grandview, is a newcomer who will not only be seen in the
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
reboot
Leatherface
, but also in Christopher Nolan’s
Dunkirk
.