‘Narcos’ Star Boyd Holbrook to Reteam With Netflix on 'In The Shadow of the Moon'

• Director: Jim Mickle

• Writers: Gregory Weidman and Geoff Tock

• Producers: Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Rian Cahill for Automatik, Ben Pugh for 42, Linda Moran and Jim Mickle for Nightshade

• Exec producers: Fred Berger, Rory Aitken

• Cast: Boyd Holbrook

• The Netflix film is expected to start shooting this year

• Quote from producers: "We are thrilled to be partnered with Netflix on IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON. Jim Mickle is a visionary director and with the spectacular Boyd Holbrook starring we have a partnership between director and leading man that promises a uniquely special film."

• Quote from Jim Mickle: "Greg and Geoff’s script is such a great mind bender and beautifully weaves together all my favorite genres. Boyd is going to eat this role alive and show why he’s one of the best young actors working today. We’re lucky to have an incredibly talented producing team and a home like Netflix that’s excited to take chances. Any studio that makes OKJA has a permanent place in my heart."

About Automatik

Automatik is a Los Angeles based film and television production company led by Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Fred Berger, and partnered with Grandview Management. Berger and Kavanaugh-Jones have produced over 60 films including Jeff Nichols’ films Take Shelter, Midnight Special, and Loving, as well as the Insidious Chapters, the Sinister series, and The Autopsy Of Jane Doe. Berger received an Academy Award® nomination and won Golden Globe, BAFTA, PGA, BFCA, and NY Film Critics Circle awards for Damien Chazelle's La La Land starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling.

Since Kavanaugh-Jones and Berger partnered in 2016, they are off to a prolific start, making over 20 films together, including Reed Morano’s I Think We’re Alone Now, Max Minghella’s Teen Spirit, Leigh Whannell’s Stem, Hany Abu-Assad’s The Mountain Between Us, André Øvredal's Mortal, Lennart Ruff’s The Titan, Nia DaCosta’s Little Woods, Rowan Athale’s Strange But True, and Wayne Roberts’ Richard Says Goodbye.

The duo are currently in production on Destroyer starring Nicole Kidman and directed by Karyn Kusama and are in post production on Chris Weitz’ Operation Finale starring Oscar Isaac and Sir Ben Kingsley, and Miles Joris-Peyrafitte’s Dreamland starring Margot Robbie.

About 42

42 is a management and production company, with offices in London and LA. Established in 2013 and run by five partners: producers Rory Aitken and Ben Pugh and managers Kate Buckley, Cathy King and Josh Varney.

Actors represented by 42 include Michael Caine, Nicholas Hoult, Rhys Ifans, Rupert Friend, Jonny Lee Miller, Paul Anderson, Sofia Boutella, Oliver Chris, Ben Drew, Jason Flemyng, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Vicky McClure, Kayvan Novak, Stacy Martin, Tom Mison, Parker Sawyers and Ed Skrein.

42’s writers and directors include, Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain, Sebastian Barry, Jay Basu, Julian Barratt , Peter Baynham, Baran Bo Odar, Vanessa Caswill, Peter Cattaneo, Chris Chibnall, Amanda Coe, Eran Creevy, Julia Davies, William Davies, Claire Denis, Sarah Dollard, Julian Fellowes, Terry George, Cole Haddon, Tom Harper, Guy Hibbert, Kevin Hood, Robert Jones, Alice Lowe, Philippa Lowthorpe, Hettie Macdonald, Neil Marshall, Rona Munro, Darius Marder, William Monahan, Abi Morgan, Nima Nourizadeh, Lynne Ramsay, Penny Skinner, Colm Tóibín, Craig Warner, Peter Webber, Toby Whithouse and Daniel Wolfe.

Films to be released are The Titan starring Sam Worthington and Taylor Schilling and In Darkness, directed by Anthony Byrne and starring Natalie Dormer and Ed Skrein. André Øvredal’s Mortal, a fantasy adventure based on ancient Norwegian mythology is in Post Production.

Previous film credits include the war drama Sand Castle which was released on Netflix globally in April 2017; Øvredal’s The Autopsy Of Jane Doe and Eran Creevy’s Collide, starring Nicholas Hoult, Felicity Jones, Sir Anthony Hopkins and Sir Ben Kingsley; The Other Side Of The Door, Welcome To The Punch, exec produced by Ridley Scott; and the BAFTA-nominated feature film Shifty.

42’s TV projects in production are Jerusalem, a 6-part drama series commissioned by Channel 4, written by Bash Doran, which is in pre-production and starts shooting in March; Watership Down, a 4 x 1 hour animated mini-series for BBC and Netflix, adapted from the global best-selling book by Richard Adams, written by Tom Bidwell, and starring James McAvoy, Nicholas Hoult, John Boyega, Sir Ben Kingsley, Daniel Kaluuya, Gemma Arterton and Olivia Colman, which is in production, and due to TX later this year; and a number of other series in development with UK and US broadcasters.

42 has a television output deal in the UK with distributor ITV Studios Global Entertainment; and a first look deal in the US with ITV Studios.