Ethan Hawke, Myha’la Herrold board Netflix thriller ‘Leave the World Behind’

By PTI

LOS ANGELES: Hollywood star Ethan Hawke and “Industry” breakout Myha’la Herrold have joined the solid of the Netflix thriller characteristic “Leave the World Behind”, to be directed by “Mr Robot” creator Sam Esmail.

Hawke and Herrold be part of beforehand introduced stars Julia Roberts and Mahershala Ali, reported Deadline.

Ryan Kiera Armstrong and Charlie Evans additionally spherical out the solid of the movie.

Based on Rumaan Alam’s novel of the identical title, “Leave the World Behind” follows two households, strangers to one another, who’re pressured collectively on an extended weekend gone terribly flawed.

The story will discover the themes of parenthood, race, and sophistication.

Roberts will play the mom of the household that rents a home and Ali will painting the house owner.

Hawke will play Roberts’ husband, Herrold will play Ali’s daughter, and Armstrong and Evans will play Roberts and Hawke’s kids.

Esmail, who will even adapt the e-book, will even produce the movie with Chad Hamilton via their Esmail Corp together with Roberts for her Red Om Films banner.

Author Alam will function an govt producer.

Esmail and Roberts have beforehand labored collectively on the primary season of the Amazon Prime Video collection “Homecoming”.