Having battled a swivel-eyed Taron Egerton in Apex, Charlize Theron is making another thriller, Six Clean Kills, with the same director. Have you seen Apex on Netflix yet? We’d hesitate to say that it’s a particularly great thriller, but it has some tense moments, a grittily committed turn from Charlize Theron as a solitary traveller/mountain ... Charlize Theron to reteam with Apex director for Six Clean Kills
Having battled a swivel-eyed Taron Egerton in Apex, Charlize Theron is making another thriller, Six Clean Kills, with the same director.
Have you seen Apex on Netflix yet? We’d hesitate to say that it’s a particularly great thriller, but it has some tense moments, a grittily committed turn from Charlize Theron as a solitary traveller/mountain climber/rapids rider, and a truly unhinged villain in Taron Egerton. Seriously, his character goes to some really wild places, and Egerton is gleefully unrestrained. It’s fascinating to watch.
Anyway, Apex has been climbing the charts on Ted Sarandos’ streaming platform, and the partnership between Theron and director Baltasar Kormákur must have been so positive that they’re teaming up again. They have a project called Six Clean Kills in the works – there’s no word on what its plot entails, per Deadline's intelligence, but it sounds suspiciously like another thriller to us.
Unless it’s another one of those film titles that sounds like an exciting genre piece but isn’t.
The Outrun wasn’t about driving across America in a Ferrari, we subsequently discovered; Anthropoid wasn’t about a killer mutant on the rampage. Shadow Dancer really wasn’t about a ninja and his loyal attack hound. Honestly, some of our film-and-pizza-Friday nights have been absolute disasters.
We should be on safer ground with Six Clean Kills, though, which is based on a yet-to-be-published novel by a chap named Stan Parish. One of his previous novels, Love And Theft, was a heist thriller about “leather-clad thieves on motorcycles conducting an audacious jewellery heist in a crowded Las Vegas casino” and other such daring crimes. Parish has also been a writer for the Wall Street Journal and likes to spend his summers in Europe, according to Interview Magazine. It’s alright for some.
Six Clean Kills will be made through Universal, and all being well, will be Kormákur’s next film. He’s currently working on another thriller, The Big Fix, which stars Riz Ahmed and Mark Wahlberg. It’s said to be about football and Chinese triad gangs. No sign of Taron Egerton, though – more’s the pity.
More on this as we get it.
