Taron Egerton has been cast in Kockroach.
The 35-year-old actor will be joining Channing Tatum, 45, and Zazie Beetz, 34, in producers Andrew Lazar and Kevin Frakes’ upcoming crime drama, Deadline has said.
Egerton will be replacing Oscar Isaac, who had to exit the project due to scheduling conflicts.
Lazar teased the movie was akin to Goodfellas and Scarface, with the synopsis reading: “Kockroach is the story of a mysterious stranger who takes on New York’s criminal underworld, transforming himself into a larger-than-life crime boss in a city where power is everything.”
The film - which is an adaptation of William Lashner’s 2007 crime novel of the same name - is currently in pre-production, with principal photography due to commence in February 2026 in Australia.
Captain Fantastic’s Matt Ross will be directing Kockroach from a screenplay written by Jonathan Ames.
Meanwhile, production designer Colin Gibson - who won an Oscar for his work on 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road - Emmy-winning cinematographer Adam Arkapaw and M3GAN’s VFX supervisor Jonathan Dearing have all signed on to Kockroach.
Lazar said in a statement: “I couldn’t be more excited to welcome Taron to Kockroach and to see him team up with Channing and Zazie in this fresh and bold take on the gangster genre.
“Under the extraordinary talent of director Matt Ross, Kockroach will push boundaries and expectations in the same ways as such seminal films as Scarface and Goodfellas.
“I’m also thrilled to see our incredible creative team coming together. Academy Award-winning production designer Colin Gibson, DP Adam Arkapaw, and VFX Supervisor Jonathan Dearing.”
Egerton is best known for playing Gary ‘Eggsy’ Unwin in the Kingsman franchise, having starred in director Matthew Vaughn’s spy series from 2014’s Kingsman: The Secret Service to Kingsman: The Golden Circle in 2017.
The Rocketman star recently teased that he, Vaughn and Colin Firth - who portrayed agent Harry Hart in the franchise - were all still keen to make a third Kingsman movie.
Speaking with The Playlist, Egerton said: “Yeah, look, we both want to do it. And I know Colin is open to doing it, too.
“I think the interesting thing will be figuring out whether we all see the same thing. I love Matthew. Matthew is like family to me.
“I really think there’s a brilliant story to tell with the third Kingsman. And I still think it will happen.”
Kingsman: The Secret Service - which also starred Mark Strong, Michael Caine and Samuel L. Jackson - follows a rebellious teen who is recruited into a secret spy organisation and trained to become a gentleman agent.
Egerton had also said he hoped the third Kingsman movie would be a “fitting” conclusion for the franchise.
He told Collider: “[Vaughn] has every intention of making it, and I have every intention of playing Eggsy one more time. That was always what I thought I was committed to doing.
“It's the role that made my name, I suppose, in a way, I just want it to be absolutely right if we do it again, and I want the story to do justice to the part that really changed my life.
“I want it to be a fitting ending. And I would, obviously, really hope that Colin would come back for at least a part of it, and who knows? We'll have to see, but we are planning to talk about it, actually, the next time we see one another, so who knows? Watch this space.”
