"Westworld" actor Jeffrey Wright, "The Legend of Tarzan" actor Alexander Skarsgard and "Iron Man 3" actor James Badge Dale will star in Netflix's adventure thriller "Hold the Dark." They will keep the wolves at bay.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Wright will play the biologist caught up in the spree in "Hold the Night." Meanwhile, Badge Dale is a detective who wants to catch the husband, to be played by Skarsgard. "Mad Max: Fury Road" actress Riley Keough and "Self Help" alum James Bloor are also cast as the mother and a creepy drifter, respectively.
"Green Room" helmer Jeremy Saulnier is directing "Hold the Night" from a script by his longtime creative partner Macon Blair, Variety reported. The producers are Eva Maria Daniels of VisionChaos Productions and Russell Ackerman and John Schoenfelder of Addictive Pictures, along with Anish Savjani and Neil Kopp as executive producers.
The screenplay for "Hold the Dark" is an adaptation of the 2014 book by William Giraldi. It is about a young boy in a remote Alaskan village in which rogue wolves have taken and killed children. A wildlife biologist, who is an expert of wolves, is summoned from the mainland to investigate the situation.
In the plot of "Hold the Dark," the biologist finds himself in a dangerous triangle with the boy's grieving mother and her unstable husband. The mother disappears, and her husband goes a maniacal spree when he returns from Iraq and learns of his son's death, sending them all on a violent odyssey to the edge of their own humanity.
Wright was featured on HBO's "Westworld," the gangster series "Boardwalk," and "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay" movies. Badge Dale appeared in Micheal Bay' "13 Hours" and recently finished shooting Fox's adaptation of the Boom! comic "The Empty Man." 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."
Keough was seen in "Mad Max: Fury Road" and has recently wrapped in noir thriller "Under the Silver Lake" by "It Follows" filmmaker David Robert Mitchell and Logan Lucky from Steven Soderbergh. Bloor is a newcomer who will not only be seen in the "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" reboot "Leatherface" but also in Christopher Nolan's "Dunkirk."
"Hold the Dark" will begin shooting in March in Alberta, Canada. It was first unveiled in 2015 with A24 and Saulnier joining forces on "Hold the Dark" after teaming on "Green Room," starring the late Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, and Patrick Stewart.
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