Keanu Reeves To Star In 'Maelstrom' At Netflix, Replacing Alan Ritchson
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Key Points:
- Keanu Reeves will star in Netflix's upcoming action film Maelstrom, directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, taking over from Alan Ritchson who left the project for undisclosed reasons.
- The story follows a Federal Marshal protecting an arms dealer’s fiancée during a hurricane that isolates them and exposes them to danger from the dealer’s men.
- The script is currently being developed by Mark Bianculli, with origins dating back to a 1993 Warner Bros. spec by the late Gregory Fitzpatrick.
- Reeves continues to expand his film slate with projects including James Wan’s The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil, Sonic the Hedgehog 4, and a new adaptation of Oliver Lowe’s Kill Current under his production banner Two Dragonflies.
- Maelstrom is produced by Jeff Robinov and Tabitha Shick, and follows Reeves’ recent work on John Wick 4 and other upcoming films like Shiver and The Entertainment System Is Down.
