Per Deadline, Charlize Theron is set to reunite with Apex director Baltasar Kormákur for Six Clean Kills, an action thriller based on an unpublished novel by Stan Parish.

Six Clean Kills

Kormákur is set to direct and produce Six Clean Kills, while Theron is also on board to produce with an eye to star in the project. Unfortunately, plot details have not been released, but Parish is set to adapt the script based on his novel.

Theron will produce through her Secret Menu first-look deal with Universal Pictures, along with AJ Dix and Beth Kono. Kormákur will produce through Blueeyes Productions. The project started to come together last year, after the pair had wrapped up Apex.

Apex

Apex was released on Netflix two weeks ago, and the survival thriller has been a big success for the streaming platform. Theron stars as Sasha, a grieving rock climber who treks to the Australian wilderness to find solace. Her journey turns into a desperate fight for survival when she is targeted in a brutal, ritualistic cat-and-mouse game by a deceptive local ranger named Ben (Taron Egerton).

Our own Tyler Nichols found it to be a somewhat generic thriller, despite good performances from Theron and Egerton. “Unfortunately, Apex really doesn’t take advantage of its premise. The stakes never feel real enough, and I think a lot of that has to do with how everything looks like CGI,” he wrote. “The world never feels properly grounded because it’s always going from one absurd sequence to another. Even the jungle, despite it being real, feels like a set with how it’s presented. I know for a fact that they did practical stunts on the film, so it’s too bad that it’s shot in a way that makes it look so fake.“

He continued, “It plays it a bit too safe, especially given where the film goes at point. Despite the R Rating, it always feels like its trying to skirt the line of anything too dark. Even Taron’s character feels a bit handicapped in how evil he can be, and I was genuinely shocked that this wasn’t PG-13. Egerton is a clear highlight, and Theron is dependable as always, but the film never enters that next gear that it desperately needs.” You can check out the rest of his review right here.