Chris Hemsworth, Miles Teller and Jurnee Smollett Cast In Joseph Kosinski’s ‘Spiderhead’ For Netflix

Deadline is reporting that Chris Hemsworth, Miles Teller and Jurnee Smollett have been cast in Netflix’s Spiderhead, which will be directed by Joseph Kosinski.

An adaptation of the George Saunders short story, the script is by Zombieland and Deadpool scribes Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick.

Spiderhead is set in the near future, when convicts are offered the chance to volunteer as medical subjects in hopes of shortening their sentences. The focus is on two prisoners who become the test patients for emotion-altering drugs that force the prisoners to grapple with their pasts in a facility run by a brilliant visionary who supervises the program.

The film will be produced by Eric Newman for Screen Arcade through the producer’s first-look deal at Netflix, along with Chris Hemsworth; Oren Katzeff and Geneva Wasserman for The New Yorker Studios; Reese & Wernick, Tommy Harper and Jeremy Steckler.

Saunders’ short story first ran in The New Yorker and was later collected in his bestselling anthology, Tenth Of December.

Hemsworth just toplined Extraction, the action film that became Netflix’s most watched feature ever, with a sequel coming. Smollett, who currently stars in HBO’s Lovecraft Country, most recently co-starred on the big screen in Harley Quinn: Birds Of Prey.