Charlize Theron Tapped to Star in Touch Director Baltasar Kormákur’s Netflix Movie Apex

Charlize Theron has been tapped to star in Apex, a new Netflix thriller movie directed by Touch’s Baltasar Kormákur.

Apex is a new thriller movie written by Jeremy Robbins that is about a rock climber who finds herself being hunted while she’s out in the wild.

Per Deadline, Theron is in final negotiations to star in Apex, while Kormákur is in final negotiations to direct the film. Theron will also produce Apex alongside Kormákur, Dawn Olmstead, Beth Kono, AJ Dix, Ian Bryce, Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, and David Ready.

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Deadline describes the film’s script as 2018’s Free Solo meets 1991’s Silence of the Lambs.

“Netflix execs were so blown away by the script that they bought with only the producers on board. When it came to an actor and director, Theron and Kormakur were their first choices and in another rare case both committed after reading the script,” Deadline’s article notes.

Theron previously starred in 2020’s The Old Guard and 2022’s The School for Good and Evil for Netflix. She’ll also appear in the upcoming sequel to The Old Guard, The Old Guard 2, which does not yet have an official release date.

Kormákur previously directed 2012’s Contraband, 2013’s 2 Guns, 2015’s Everest, 2018’s Adrift, and 2022’s Beast. His latest film, Touch, is currently playing in United States theaters and stars Egill Ólafsson, Kōki, and Palmi Kormakur.

Kormákur told ComingSoon in an exclusive interview about Touch, which is based on a 2022 novel of the same name, “I thought this is a man’s journey from this small island called Iceland. That journey, like through being in school in London and getting to know this girl Miko from Japan, you kind of learn about these events and these stories. I just loved how that singular view and how the story opens up as we go through, which becomes the obstacle to the love story. I just love the mystery of that and how that reveal is revealed in the book. That kept my attention. Then going through culture and different countries, I thought it was a very appealing opportunity to make a film out of this.”

A release date for Apex has not yet been announced by Netflix.