‘Here Comes The Flood’: Denzel Washington, Robert Pattinson & Daisy Edgar-Jones Lead Netflix Heist Thriller From ‘City Of God’ Filmmaker

In the works for years after Netflix picked up the original script back in 2020, the heist thriller, “Here Comes The Flood,” has finally secured quite the high-profile lead cast and director as production is moving forward.

Those actors assembled (via The Hollywood Reporter) include two-time Oscar-winner Denzel Washington (“Highest 2 Lowest”), Robert Pattinson (“Mickey 17”), and Daisy Edgar-Jones (“Twisters”). “Here Comes The Flood” has a script penned by Simon Kinberg (“Mrs. & Mrs. Smith,” “X-Men: Days of Future Past”), and acclaimed Brazilian filmmaker Fernando Meirelles (“City Of God”) is set to direct.

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The thriller is described as “an unconventional heist movie about a bank guard, a teller, and a master thief in a deadly game of cons and double crosses. The story is said to unfold in a non-linear fashion.” However, we’ll have to wait for the whole plot and character details as Netflix announces them.

Washington has been gearing up for a Cannes Film Festival debut for his latest collaboration with filmmaker Spike Lee on the ransom remake “Highest 2 Lowest,” spilled the beans of his early involvement with Ryan Coogler’s “Black Panther 3,” has two more sequels to “The Equalizer” in the works, and was considered a significant highlight in Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator II,” thanks to a bombastic presence.

Pattinson has been as busy as it gets, taking on roles in Christopher Nolan’s Greek epic blockbuster “The Odyssey,” nabbing another supporting part as a villain in Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune Messiah,” and we’re waiting potentially to hear when Matt Reeves’ “The Batman Part II” will shoot. He also has his own Cannes-bound flick with Lynne Ramsay’s “Die My Love” co-starring with Jennifer Lawrence.

Meirelles is quite the get having helmed pics such as the Oscar-nominated Rio de Janeiro crime epic “City of God,” the John Le Carré feature adaptation of “The Constant Gardener,” the sci-fi thriller “Blindness,” “The Two Popes,” directed an episode of HBO’s spy thriller show “The Sympathizer,” and the recent Colin Farrell L.A.-set Apple TV+ detective series “Sugar.”

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Initially, there had been reports that Netflix darling Jason Bateman (“Ozark”) was attached to direct “Here Comes The Flood,” but that obviously didn’t come together as planned.