Rebecca Hall (Warner Bros.’ MonsterVerse franchise, Disney’s The BFG, Ethan Cohen’s Holmes & Watson) is set to star in the zombie-action horror film Zero Protocol, it was announced today. The film is directed by Debs Paterson (Paramount+’s “Halo,” Disney’s “Willow,” MGM+’s “Domina”), written by Dan Hall (The Silent Hour starring Joel Kinnaman), and produced by Andy Serkis and Jonathan Cavendish’s Imaginarium Productions. Anton is financing the film and handling worldwide rights, co-repping U.S. rights with WME Independent, launching sales at the Marche du Film.
Zero Protocol is produced by Imaginarium’s Will Tennant (Netflix’s The Ritual) and Jonathan Cavendish (Venom: Let There Be Carnage). The film will be Executive Produced by Sebastien Raybaud and Callum Grant for Anton, Andy Serkis and Phil Robertson for Imaginarium, alongside Rebecca Hall, Debs Paterson, and Dan Hall. Production is set to begin later this year.
An NYPD commissioner battles to manage a city-wide zombie outbreak exploding in real time, only to discover that her teenage daughter is trapped in the middle of the red zone.
Director Debs Paterson said, “Zero Protocol is an incredibly exciting fusion of technical and emotional filmmaking. I’m so thrilled to be working with Imaginarium’s world class team and the truly extraordinary Rebecca Hall to bring Dan’s gripping script to life.”
Producer Will Tennant added, “Dan has written an absolutely thrilling and terrifying story and we couldn’t ask for a greater director than Debs to bring together the script’s big set pieces with grounded emotional drama. We are delighted that Rebecca Hall has come on board – I couldn’t think of anyone better to be marshalling us to safety during a zombie apocalypse.”
Rebecca Hall is best known for Warner Bros.’ MonsterVerse films Godzilla vs. Kong and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. She previously starred in Searchlight Pictures’ The Night House, Disney’s The BFG, Antonio Campos’s Christine and Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige. Hall can be most recently seen in AppleTV+’s The Studio, and will next be seen in Ira Sachs’s Peter Hujar’s Day alongside Ben Whishaw, and Ryan Murphy’s The Beauty.
Hall is repped by Julian Belfrage Associates, WME & Gretchen Rush. Paterson is repped by The Artists Partnership, Entertainment 360, CAA and Lichter, Grossman, Nichols, Feldman, Rogal, Shikora & Clark. Dan Hall is repped by The Artists Partnership, Entertainment 360 and Meyer and Downs.
ABOUT ANTON
Helmed by producer Sébastien Raybaud and headquartered in London, with offices in Los Angeles and Berlin, Anton’s current film slate includes includes the horror thriller The Shepherd starring David Dastmalchian and Georgina Campbell; the survival thriller Left Seat starring Michelle Rodriguez and Richard Gere; Zachary Wigon’s psychological horror film Victorian Psycho from Longlegs producer Dan Kagan; David Mackenzie’s thriller Fuze starring Theo James and Aaron Taylor Johnson; Night of the Zoopocalypse, the CGI animated feature from the Studios behind Despicable Me, Ice Age: Collision Course and Paw Patrol; Memoir of a Snail, the stop motion animated feature from Academy Award-winner Adam Elliott, which was Oscar Nominated for Best Animated Feature, took home the top Cristal Award at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, was awarded the Best Film at the London Film Festival and screened in Official Selection at the Telluride Film Festival; Martin Campbell’s Cleaner starring Daisy Ridley and Clive Owen; the survival thriller A Prayer for the Dying starring Johnny Flynn and John C. Reilly, currently in post-production; and Claude Barras’ animated feature Savages which enjoyed its World Premiere in Official Selection at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. Additional projects include Greenland: Migration starring Gerard Butler, who reprises his role in the sequel to Anton’s blockbuster Greenland, currently in post-production.
Recently, Anton developed, produced and financed the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival title The End We Start From starring Jodie Comer and Benedict Cumberbatch; Mothers’ Instinct starring Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway; the action thriller Canary Black, starring Kate Beckinsale and Rupert Friend; and Jamie Child’s thriller Jackdaw, starring Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Jenna Coleman.
About Imaginarium Productions
Imaginarium Productions was founded in 2011 by actor & director Andy Serkis (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Lord of the Rings) and Jonathan Cavendish (Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Bridget Jones’ Diary). Since its creation, the company has produced a number of feature films and high-end television most recently the football comedy film Next Goal Wins, directed by Taika Waititi, starring Michael Fassbender and Elisabeth Moss and for television Half Bad: The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself, written by Joe Barton, for Netflix. Imaginarium Productions is also currently in post-production on an adaptation of George Orwell’s Animal Farm directed by Andy Serkis and starring Seth Rogen and Woody Harrelson, Scandi-vampire thriller The Cruise starring Tuppence Middleton, and thriller The Girlfriend, for Amazon Prime Video, directed by and starring Robin Wright, and also starring Olivia Cooke.
