Netflix will be the next stop for folks keen on the incumbent efforts of Blue Ruin and Green Room helmer Jeremy Saulnier. His latest, Hold The Dark, takes epic shape and value with Jeffrey Wright, Alexander Skarsgard and Riley Keough right smack in psychological warfare with a ravenous wolfpack, and a grieving father out for blood.
Retired naturalist and wolf expert Russell Core (JEFFREY WRIGHT) journeys to the edge of civilization in northern Alaska at the pleading of Medora Slone (RILEY KEOUGH), a young mother whose son was killed by a pack of wolves. As Core attempts to help Medora track down the wolves who took her son, a strange and dangerous relationship develops between the two lonely souls.
But when Medora’s husband Vernon (ALEXANDER SKARSGARD) returns home from the Iraq War, the news of his child’s death ignites a violent chain of events. As local cop, Donald Marium (JAMES BADGE DALE), races to stop Vernon’s vengeful rampage, Core is forced on a perilous odyssey into the heart of darkness.
James Badge Dale and Julian Black Antelope also star from a script by Macon Blair. Hold The Dark premieres on September 28 on Netflix.