EXCLUSIVE: Rebecca Hall will star in Debs Paterson’s zombie-action horror Zero Protocol for Anton and Andy Serkis and Jonathan Cavendish’s UK com
EXCLUSIVE: Rebecca Hall will star in Debs Paterson’s zombie-action horror Zero Protocol for Anton and Andy Serkis and Jonathan Cavendish’s UK company Imaginarium Productions which will start shooting later this year.
Anton will launch sales at Cannes with WME Independent co-repping the US. Anton is financing the film.
Hall will play an NYPD commissioner who battles to manage a city-wide zombie outbreak exploding in real time, only to discover her teenage daughter is trapped in the middle of the red zone.
Zero Protocol is produced by Imaginarium’s Will Tennant and Cavendish, and is executive produced by Sebastien Raybaud and Callum Grant for Anton, Serkis and Phil Robertson for Imaginarium, and Hall, Paterson and Dan Hall, who has also written the screenplay.
Production is set to begin later this year, with location to be confirmed.
Actor Hall is known for her performances in Warner Bros’ MonsterVerse films Godzilla vs. Kong and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, and has previously appeared in Searchlight Pictures’ The Night House and Disney’s The BFG.
“Zero Protocol is an incredibly exciting fusion of technical and emotional filmmaking,” said director Paterson, whose previous credits include Paramount+ series Halo. “I’m so thrilled to be working with Imaginarium’s world class team and the truly extraordinary Rebecca Hall to bring Dan’s gripping script to life.”
Producer Tennant added: “Dan has written an absolutely thrilling and terrifying story and we couldn’t ask for a greater director than Debs to bring together the script’s big set-pieces with grounded emotional drama. We are delighted that Rebecca Hall has come on board – I couldn’t think of anyone better to be marshalling us to safety during a zombie apocalypse.”
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