LOS ANGELES, November 9, 2026 — Netflix has announced that The Take, a heist thriller starring Denzel Washington, Robert Pattinson and Daisy Edgar-Jones, will premiere on January 15, the streamer said in posts shared on X.
Netflix describes the film as the story of a bank guard, a teller and a master thief who are part of a bank heist, playing a deadly game of cons and double crosses. The company released first-look images alongside the announcement.
Who is behind the film
The Take is written by Simon Kinberg and directed by Fernando Meirelles, according to Netflix. Kinberg wrote Mr. & Mrs. Smith, while Meirelles, the Brazilian filmmaker behind City of God and The Two Popes, is an Academy Award nominee. Netflix’s Tudum site says Meirelles will also produce the film alongside Kinberg and Audrey Chon for Genre Films, with Samson Mucke as executive producer.
The cast also includes Danai Gurira, Sean Harris, Moisés Arias and Justin Kirk, according to Netflix’s Tudum site.
What the story is about
Based on the official synopsis published by Netflix, Pattinson plays Noah, a former Army captain who is trying to find his footing in civilian life. Washington plays Christian Carter, a charismatic master thief who recruits Noah to join his crew for the score of a lifetime: robbing the richest bank in Manhattan.
The plan is otherwise meticulous, but it has one hitch. Noah’s girlfriend, Rose, played by Edgar-Jones, works at the bank as a teller. With time and love on the line, Noah must work out whom he can trust if he is to get out of the heist alive.
Speaking to Tudum, Meirelles said the script’s unconventional mix of genres first drew him to it. “Until the end, you don’t know if you’re making a love story that has a robbery, or if you’re making a robbery film that has a love story,” he said. “Both things have a lot of weight.”
He added that the script has a non-linear, puzzle-like structure and unfolds almost entirely from the perspective of a single character. “You only know what he knows,” Meirelles said of Noah.
Release plans
The film will premiere on January 15, 2027, in select theaters and on Netflix, according to Netflix’s Tudum site. Netflix’s posts on X give the date as January 15 without a year.
Washington is best known for films such as Training Day and Glory, Pattinson for Tenet and The Batman, and Edgar-Jones for Normal People and Twisters, as listed by Netflix.
Netflix has not yet announced further details on the release in its posts. LNA will report any further announcements about the film as they are made.
Credit : Netflix’s X
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