While The Walking Dead has not been running for a few years now, many of the actors have stayed booked and busy, including star Danai Gurira. Now, Gurira has added a brand-new Netflix film to that list, with a star-studded cast.
According to Entertainment Weekly, Gurira has signed on to co-star alongside several big names in the new film, The Take, which will release next year.
Alongside Gurira, Robert Pattinson (who has been in just about every film recently), Denzel Washington, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Moisés Arias, Justin Kirk, and Sean Harris will star in The Take. This is the kind of cast you’d want in a new film that looks amazing.
What is The Take about?
If Gurira's presence in the film has already lured you in, there's more you should know. The Take is a bank-heist film, but it's unconventional. Not much is known about the film beyond its main logline: it follows “a bank guard, a teller, and a master thief” who get caught in “a deadly game of cons and double crosses.”
That could mean a million different things. But thanks to Entertainment Weekly, we know a little more now. Pattinson will play Noah, a former Army captain who is trying to adjust to civilian life. A thief (Washington) recruits him to rob the biggest bank in New York, where Noah’s girlfriend (Edgar-Jones) just so happens to work.
The film, directed by Fernando Meirelles, who has directed other films like the Oscar-nominated City of God and The Two Popes, is meant to be ambiguous. The director even said that when he was first reading the script, he didn’t know what to think about it:
“When I first read the script, I wasn’t quite sure whether I was reading a heist film or a psychological drama with a love story at its center; it’s this interesting combination of genres. The structure of the script really caught my attention. You start watching the film without quite knowing where it’s going to take you. You have to come along for the ride without too many expectations. The story keeps surprising you right up to the very end.”
Pattinson agreed that the story is unlike anything else and that a big reason why he took the job in the first place was because of who he gets to co-star with:
“It’s a really interesting and exciting script. Plus, getting to do a heist movie set in New York with Denzel Washington and Daisy Edgar-Jones, what else is there to say? It was one of those dream-team situations that was pretty easy to say yes to.”
Meirelles also continued to say that while heist films of the past inspire The Take, it has a certain quality about it that makes it very distinct from other movies in the genre:
“Heist movies usually show us both sides: the criminals and the police, or whoever is chasing them. This film doesn’t do that. The entire story is told exclusively from the point of view of Robert’s character, Noah. We only know what Noah knows, either because he’s physically present or because he hears something over the intercom. We never get to see what’s happening elsewhere or what the other characters are doing when he’s not around. This strict subjectivity felt quite unique.”
Gurira's character has not been revealed yet.
At this moment, we’re not sure who Danai Gurira will play in the grand scheme of things. We know the film's main trio will be Pattinson, Edgar-Jones, and Washington, but Gurira could play a range of roles.
She could end up being related to the thief or working at the bank. Maybe she’ll be something else entirely. Either way, it looks like it’ll be fun.
Her last film, Matchbox: The Movie, was released on Apple TV, but this will be Gurira’s first film role to release in theaters since Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. It may not be a huge release with Netflix involved, but it’s a theatrical release all the same. The Netflix release just means more people will enjoy it from home. There's no doubt this will be one of Netflix's biggest movies of next year.
The Take will be released on Jan. 15, 2027, on Netflix and in select theaters.
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