“The Grey” and “Smokin’ Aces” filmmaker Joe Carnahan, who last directed “The Rip” at Netflix, is set to re-team with the streamer.
Deadline reports that he will helm the action thriller “The Operator,” which will star Mark Wahlberg and premiere directly on the streamer.
Written by Harrison Query (“The Murder of JonBenét Ramsey”), the story follows an ex-Tier One Operator (Wahlberg) who earns a living as one of the CIA’s invisible clean-up men.
When he’s ordered to shepherd his most hated target to safety, the mission turns into a high-stakes cat-and-mouse game for survival.
Query sold his original spec to Netflix in a bidding war in December. Wahlberg, Alex Heineman, Andrew Rona, Stephen Levinson and Scott Glassgold will produce.
Carnahan’s “The Rip” pulled in more than 41 million views in its first three days on Netflix in January – the service’s biggest film opening in months.
