Fresh off his acclaimed role in Apple TV+’s Black Bird [read our review here], Taron Egerton has signed on to lead the cast of the action thriller Carry On from Netflix and Amblin Partners.
As reported by Deadline, Carry On will see Egerton playing Ethan Kopek, “a young TSA agent who gets blackmailed by a mysterious traveler to let a dangerous package slip through security and onto a Christmas Day flight”.
Jungle Cruise and Black Adam helmer Jaume Collet-Serra is set to direct the film, which is said to be in the vein of the filmmakers earlier action thrillers like Non-Stop and Unforgettable. The script was originally written by TJ Fixman, with Collet-Serra subsequently bringing Michael Green in to polish.
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Along with Carry On, Egerton also has Apple TV+’s Tetris movie in the can, and he also remains attached to a third Kingsman movie, which was originally intended to begin filming in September but now looks like it won’t begin production until some point next year.
