Chris Hemsworth is set to star in Subversion, a submarine action flick coming together at Amazon MGM Studios, with Patrick Vollrath (7500) directing from a script by Andrew Ferguson, and Di Bonaventura Pictures producing, Deadline has confirmed.
The film follows a once-promising Naval commander (Chris Hemsworth) who is blackmailed by a cartel-like operation into piloting a dangerous submarine carrying illegal cargo across international waters, thrusting him into a high-stakes game of cat and mouse, outmaneuvering blockades, and navigating perilous threats both in and outside of the submarine.
The project reunites Hemsworth with Amazon MGM Studios as he’s also starring in Crime 101 for writer-director Bart Layton alongside Mark Ruffalo, Barry Keoghan, Halle Berry, and Monica Barbaro, which is set to be released theatrically next year. The film also reunites four-time Black List honoree Ferguson with the studio, where his script Blood Rush is in development.
Coming off of projects like Extraction II, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga — where he gave a career-best performance as Dementus — and Transformers One, Hemsworth is confirmed to reprise his role as Thor in Avengers: Doomsday, which also hits theaters in 2026. Other projects to which he’s recently been linked include an Untitled Transformers/G.I. Joe Crossover at Paramount and a Prince Charming movie that Paul King is expected to direct for Disney, if the studio doesn’t completely back off from its strategy of mining animated IP for live-action films, in the wake of Snow White.
German filmmaker Vollrath’s first feature 7500, a hijacking action thriller starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, was acquired and released by Amazon Studios in 2020. He was also Academy Award-nominated for his live-action short Everything Will Be Okay in 2016.
News of Hemsworth’s involvement with Subversion broke via The Hollywood Reporter.