Netflix, the place where movie talent goes to die.
The first images from "The Take" are finally here, courtesy of Entertainment Weekly. This is the Netflix heist thriller formerly called "Here Comes the Flood," directed by Fernando Meirelles ("City of God," "The Constant Gardener") from an original Simon Kinberg script. It stars Denzel Washington, Robert Pattinson and Daisy Edgar-Jones.
The logline: A bank guard, a teller and a master thief get pulled into a deadly game of cons and double-crosses. Pattinson plays Noah, a former Army captain struggling with civilian life. He gets recruited by a charismatic thief, Christian Carter (Washington), to rob Manhattan's richest bank. The catch is that Noah's girlfriend, Rose (Edgar-Jones), works there as a teller.
Pattinson is wrapping "The Batman Part II" and getting awards chatter for "Primetime" and "The Odyssey." And just this weekend, word got out that he screen-tested for Denis Villeneuve's "Bond 26." He's hot right now.
So why am I worried? Look at the release date. "The Take" hits Netflix and select theaters on January 15.
When I first reported on this project, it had every marker of a fall awards-season play: an Oscar-nominated director, a two-time Oscar winner and one of the hottest actors working. Earlier this year, Variety pointed to a Venice 2026 premiere. Then it didn't show up. It skipped both Venice and Toronto, which raised questions about whether it would come out this year at all. In August, it was reported that it had been pushed to 2027.
January is where studios put movies they've lost faith in. Netflix had its fall awards slate set and chose not to make room for a Denzel-Pattinson-Meirelles movie. That says something. Maybe they think a twisty genre picture plays better as a post-holiday streaming event, but a film with this pedigree, on paper, shouldn't be dumped this way.
I hope I'm wrong. I want this film to work. A teaser trailer is surely coming soon, and then we'll get a better sense of whether "The Take" is just another Netflix algorithm movie with an expensive cast.
January is where studios put movies they've lost faith in. Netflix had its fall awards slate set and chose not to make room for a Denzel-Pattinson-Meirelles movie.