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EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is processing a characteristic adjustment of Cold Zero, nan forthcoming action thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling writer Brad Thor, Deadline has learned.
True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto is group to accommodate nan screenplay, pinch Peter Berg (Lone Survivor, Patriots Day) producing for Film 44 alongside Ezra Emanuel. Exec producers connected nan task see Thor and Elizabeth Rogers. Sources said Netflix execs were blown distant by nan book and were capable to unafraid it acknowledgment to their imaginative business pinch Berg and his Film 44, which precocious reupped its longtime first-look woody pinch Netflix.
Slated for publication connected February 10, Cold Zero watches arsenic a cutting-edge commercialized airliner crash-lands adjacent nan North Pole, stranding survivors successful 1 of nan astir dispute environments connected Earth. Unbeknownst to astir aboard, nan level was secretly transporting a revolutionary, highly classified exertion tin of reshaping world power, and its disappearance sparks a frantic, high-stakes title among nan world’s awesome powers to retrieve it.
Best known for creating HBO’s Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning crime anthology True Detective, which is heading into its 5th season, Pizzolatto astir precocious teamed pinch Skydance Sports to group up a enigma bid to prima Matthew McConaughey and Cole Hauser astatine Netflix, successful a bidding war. Recently, he besides wrote, directed and produced nan forthcoming play Easy’s Waltz, starring Vince Vaughn, Al Pacino, Kate Mara, Simon Rex and more, which premiered astatine nan 2025 Toronto Film Festival. He is repped by WME, Anonymous Content, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman.
Berg is nan aggregate Emmy nominee down bid specified arsenic Friday Night Lights, The Leftovers, Ballers, Painkiller, and American Primeval, which precocious racked up 4 weeks connected nan Netflix Global Top 10 TV (English). He’s besides responsible for lauded films arsenic Patriots Day, Deepwater Horizon, and Lone Survivor. Berg astir precocious wrapped connected The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death successful World War II, a humanities play for Netflix starring Bill Skarsgård, Nicholas Galitzine, Ray Nicholson, and Tom Francis that’s expected to beryllium released this year. He reupped Film 44’s woody pinch Netflix past April and is besides presently moving pinch Taylor Sheridan to create a Call of Duty movie for Paramount and Activision. Also an EP connected a forthcoming Friday Night Lights reboot for Peacock, he is repped by WME and Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum.
Other useful from Thor see The Lions of Lucerne, The First Commandment, and The Last Patriot, to sanction conscionable a few. He is repped by lawyer Scott E. Schwimer.
