Carmen Ejogois about to pop in a major way between the upcoming third season ofTrue Detectiveand theFantastic Beastssequel, and now she has lined up another intriguing project. Ejogo has signed on to star in Netflix’s psychological thrillerRattlesnake, which hails from writer-directorZak Hilditch(1922), Collider has exclusively learned.
Theo Rossi(Luke Cage,Sons of Anarchy) andEmma Greenwell(Shameless,The Path) will co-star in the film, which will find Ejogo playing a single mother who accepts the help of a mysterious woman after her daughter is bitten by a rattlesnake. She soon finds herself forced to pay back her “debt” by taking the life of a total stranger in the rural town of Tulia, Texas.
Ross Dinersteinis producing the film via his Campfire banner, having previously worked with Hilditch and Netflix on 1922, theThomas Janemovie based on a novella byStephen Kingwith an 87% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Dinerstein also produced the Netflix originalsThe Package,6 Balloons,ClinicalandRebirthvia Campfire, which he founded in 2014. If you haven’t seenThe Package, you should definitely add it to your queue on the streaming service, as it’s one of the funniest films of the year.
Ejogo recently starred oppositeDenzel WashingtoninRoman J. Israel, Esq.and she also played Coretta Scott King inAva DuVernay’s MLK dramaSelma. Last year she starred in a pair of genre films –Alien: CovenantandIt Comes at Night– as well as Starz’s provocative dramaThe Girlfriend Experience. Coming up, Ejogo will reprise her role as Seraphina Picquery inFantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, and she’ll also lend her voice to an animated character in theRobert Downey Jr.movieThe Voyage of Doctor Dolittle. Finally, Ejogo stars oppositeMahershala Aliin the new season ofTrue Detective, which debuts Jan. 13 on HBO. She’s represented by WME and Anonymous Content.
Rossi is best known for playing Juice onSons of Anarchyand Shades on Marvel’sLuke Cage, which recently debuted its second season on Netflix. He also played Ghost in Blumhouse’sLowriders, and he’s currently filming Paramount’s horror-thrillerBody CamwithMary J. BligeandNat Wolff. He’s repped by CAA, Management 360 and Schreck Rose.
Greenwell is a rising talent whose feature credits includePride and Prejudice and ZombiesandWhit Stillman’s acclaimed comedyLove & Friendship. She parlayed significant roles onShamelessandThe Pathinto the lead role in and will soon be seen as the lead in the upcoming Starz seriesThe Rook. She’s repped by WME, Troika and Thruline, which also reps Hilditch along with WME and attorney Andrew Hurwitz.
