Chris Hemsworth and Pedro Pascal are attached to star in Crime 101, Deadline reported on Monday night. No deals are in place, but Hemsworth and Pascal showed interest in the project before the start of the strike.
According to Deadline, Amazon and Netflix are in a heated battle to land Crime 101 based on the novella by Don Winslow. Amazon reportedly has the edge to land the package in a “whopping deal.”
What to Expect in Crime 101?
“It’s a great crime story in the vein of Heat. High level jewel thieves are taking place up and down the Pacific Coast and police have linked the thefts to the Colombian cartels,” the synopsis reads in Deadline’s report. “Detective Lou Lubesnick has other ideas, and he zeroes in on one perp, a thief looking for a final score.”
Attached to direct Crime 101 is Bart Layton, the director behind 2018’s American Animals and 2012’s The Imposter. HarperCollins published Crime 101 in Winslow’s Broken, a collection of short novels. Broken and The Last Ride, two of the novellas in Broken, are also set to become movies. Shane Salerno’s Story Factory and Working Title’s Eric Fellner teamed with CAA for the Crime 101 package.
Hemsworth recently starred in Extraction 2, which recently entered Netflix’s top 10 for most popular films of all time. In 2024, Hemsworth will star in the Max Max prequel, Furiosa, and voice Optimus Prime in Transformers One.
It has been a banner year for Pascal, who starred in The Mandalorian Season 3 and The Last of Us, the latter earning him an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. In 2024, Pascal will appear in Drive-Away Dolls and the highly anticipated Gladiator 2.
