Casting News: Rupert Friend to lead star in Guillermo Del Toro-Produced Horror Movie ‘The Boy in the Iron Box’ on Netflix

A new Netflix feature adaptation titled The Boy in the Iron Box taps Rupert Friend to lead star as the leader, a man named Liev, which is being produced by Guillermo Del Toro and production I said to begin next month.

Read more info. via The Hollywood Reporter below…

Netflix is prepping to shoot a feature adaptation of The Boy in the Iron Box, an adaptation of a six-part horror story by author Chuck Hogan and Del Toro, who has Frankenstein hitting the streaming service in November.
Rupert Friend has been tapped to lead the feature, which will also have Kevin Durand and Jaeden Martell on the manifest. 

Del Toro is producing the feature with longtime producing partner J. Miles Dale. Production is due to being in October. 

Published by Amazon Original Stories for its Kindle platform last year, the story told of a group of mercenaries that crash-land on a remote snow summit. Taking refuge from wolves in a long-abandoned fortress, the men find a concealed pit witha box wrapped in chains. Terrors are soon unleashed. 

Friend will play the leader of the group, a man named Liev. Durand is one of the mercenaries while Martell is the titular boy in the iron box. 

Boy in the Iron Box is the latest collaboration between del Toro and Hogan, the author who wrote the crime novel Prince of Thieves, adapted as The Town by Ben Affleck. The duo famously co-wrote the horror book trilogy The Strain, which was later adapted as a horror drama by FX in the mid-2010s. 

Friend has had a jam-packed year, beginning with appearing in the well-reviewed sci-fi horror movie Companion and then hitting the Cannes Film Festival for the premiere of Wes Anderson’s latest, The Phoenician Scheme. This summer, he faced dinosaurs in Jurassic World: Rebirth, which grossed $863 million worldwide and became one of the summer’s biggest hits.