In Hollywood, there are names that demand marquee lights: Channing Tatum, Oscar Isaac, and Zazie Beetz. Separately, they headline franchises, win awards, and fuel social media edits. Together, they are less a casting choice and more a cosmic alignment, the kind publicists dream about and festivals fight over. When stars of this caliber unite, the result is rarely small. And yes, their next project proves exactly that.

Because when Hollywood’s brightest collide, it is never just casting, it is destiny in designer shoes, strutting straight toward chaos, headlines, and a plot twist nobody asked for but everyone will watch.

Producer Mad Chance has brought together Channing Tatum, Oscar Isaac, and Zazie Beetz for Kockroach, a crime epic ready to strut its way into the Toronto International Film Festival’s marketplace. Adapted from William Lashner’s novel (written as Tyler Knox), it is pitched as a noir-ish New York tale where ambition transforms an unknown figure into a criminal monarch. The irony? This metamorphosis begins not with a man turning into an insect, but a cockroach waking up as a human.

The feature will be directed by Matt Ross, who once gave cinema Captain Fantastic and now steps into the role of crime maestro in Times Square’s smoky 1950s shadows. Jonathan Ames, best known for You Were Never Really Here, pens the script with Ross adding his own revisions. The story blends pulp with philosophy, picture neon alleys, ashtrays of paranoia, and ambition disguised as existential dread. Principal photography begins in Australia this January, New York grit relocated a kangaroo’s leap away.

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While the story toys with shadows, paranoia, and ambition, its cast reminds everyone that chaos sells best when draped in star power and wrapped in box-office charm.

Channing Tatum is busy proving he is more than Magic Mike’s abs, juggling crime dramas like Roofman while gatecrashing Welsh football clubs owned by Ryan Reynolds. Oscar Isaac remains Hollywood’s swiss army knife, leaping from Dune deserts to Ex Machina’s glass-box psychosis. And Zazie Beetz, who conquered Atlanta and Joker, completes the trifecta with her edge-meets-elegance appeal. Together, they are less an ensemble and more a genre-bending flex aimed at Toronto International Film Festival buyers with deep pockets.

At the end of the day, Kockroach feels like cinema’s rebellion against safe storytelling. A bug turned man rises as a crime boss in mid-century Manhattan, framed by neon noir and existential swagger. With Black Bear handling international rights and CAA Media Finance steering U.S. sales, industry sharks are already circling. It is crime reimagined as couture, where wings are traded for pinstripes and ambition flickers under the glow of neon-lit streets.

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