Carry-On director Jaume Collet-Serra lands rare Netflix film deal
Carry-On director Jaume Collet-Serra is "thrilled" to have signed a multi-year deal with Netflix to create his next few films.
Carry-On director Jaume Collet-Serra has signed a multi-year deal with Netflix.
The 51-year-old filmmaker has put pen to paper on a rare overall agreement with the streaming giant after his 2024 action thriller - which starred Jason Bateman and Taron Egerton - became Netflix's second highest viewed film of all time, clocking up 185 million views.
He told Variety: “From production to release, my experience making Carry-On with the Netflix team was everything a filmmaker could hope for.
“I’m thrilled to call Netflix my creative home and excited to keep pushing boundaries together, beginning with An Innocent Girl.”
The upcoming psychological thriller will have Collet-Serra at the helm as director and producer, alongside Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter.
The film will follow a young and ambitious woman who gets seduced by a high powered couple in Washington D.C. as she gets pulled into a world of power, sex and murder.
Netflix film vice president Doug Belgrad praised Collet-Serra as “one of the most in-demand directors out there right now".
He added: "And for good reason — he knows how to deliver big, high-stakes stories that audiences love.
"The fact that he chose to make this deal with us, especially after the great experience we had together on Carry-On, says a lot.
"He’s never been hotter, and we look forward to keeping that momentum going with him.”
According to Deadline, the director - who most recently worked on survival thriller Play Dead - has has another project lined up for his Netflix deal.
As well as An Innocent Girl, his slate includes a reimagining of 1993 mountain rescue action movie Cliffhanger, which starred Sylvester Stallone alongside John Lithgow, Michael Rooker and Janine Turner.
The new version will star Lily James and Pierce Brosnan.
Fans shouldn't necessarily expect a Carry-On sequel as part of the Netflix agreement, as he revealed back in January that a follow-up to the airport action thriller was "not in the cards" at the time.
However, he did tell Variety: "I would like to definitely make another one.
"When we started with the movie, it certainly felt like one unique story in a moment in time with a set of characters.
"If an idea comes to us that feels like we can do something that is as original as the first one, and that can connect with the audience in the same way, then we’ll explore that.”
The film followed young TSA officer Ethan Kopek (Egerton) who gets blackmailed by the mysterious Traveler (Bateman) into letting a enrve agent on board a Christmas Eve flight carrying 250 people.
Previously, Collet-Serra has shown his diversity as a filmmaker with a wide range of projects.
As well as Disney blockbuster Jungle Cruise - based on the theme park attraction of the same name - he's also directed horror films like House of Wax, Orphan and The Shadows.
