‘Kockroach’: First Look At Chris Hemsworth & Taron Egerton In Crime-Thriller About Cockroach Turned New York Gangster

EXCLUSIVE: Below is your first look astatine Chris Hemsworth and Taron Egerton successful crime-thriller Kockroach, which has wrapped filming successful Australia.

The New York-set crime pic, based connected nan William Lashner novel, is nan communicative of a mysterious alien who takes connected nan city’s criminal underworld, transforming himself into a larger-than-life leader successful a metropolis wherever powerfulness is everything.

Rachel Sennott, Zazie Beetz, Alec Baldwin and Brian Geraghty besides prima successful Matt Ross’ feature. Ross directs from a screenplay by Jonathan Ames (You Were Never Really Here) pinch revisions by Ross.

Andrew Lazar (American Sniper) and Christina Weiss Lurie (Persuasion) produce. Black Bear handles world rights. CAA Media Finance and Range Select co-rep domestic.

Lashner’s caller is simply a re-imagining of Franz Kafka’s classical story Metamorphosis in which a man wakes up to find that he has been transformed into a cockroach. We perceive there’s a nosy and gory supernatural constituent to nan movie, successful which Hemsworth’s characteristic morphs from cockroach into gangster.

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