EXCLUSIVE: Michael Chaves, the filmmaker behind last summer’s New Line smash The Conjuring: Last Rites, has enlisted Chris Pine (Carousel) to lead Yeti, a new survival thriller for Netflix that will also star Iona Bell (The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping), Ray Winstone (Damsel), and Sofia Boutella (Rebel Moon).
Yeti takes place deep in the Alps, where an avalanche has unleashed something primeval from the glacial ice. With no hope of rescue, a father (Pine) and his daughter (Bell) must fight to survive against a merciless predator that blends in with the snow.
Originally set up at Sony Pictures, the project made its way to Netflix last spring. Peter Gaffney and Sean Tretta penned the script. Erik Feig and Jessica Switch are producing for Picturestart, alongside Dan Kagan, with Hans Ritter and Pine exec producing.
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Coming off the Sundance premiere of Carousel, a romantic drama where he stars opposite Jenny Slate, Pine just recently entered talks to star opposite Emma Stone in the Universal rom-com The Catch, as we first reported. Upcoming, he’ll also be seen in the sci-fi comedy Alpha Gang from filmmakers David and Nathan Zellner. He is repped by CAA, Brillstein Entertainment Partners, and Gendler, Kelly & Cunningham.
Bell is also coming off a Sundance premiere, for Fing! — a family fantasy film, where she stars alongside Taika Waititi and Mia Wasikowska. The young English up-and-comer will next be seen in the role of Lou Lou in Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping. She is repped by Mark Jermin Management.
Known for his work in films like The Departed, Sexy Beast, Beowulf and Cold Mountain, Winstone has been in business with Netflix only recently, on the Millie Bobby Brown fantasy flick Damsel — the streamer’s 10th most popular film of all time — and the Guy Ritchie series The Gentlemen. He is repped by the UK’s Modern Collective.
Recently, Boutella has been seen starring in Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon films for the service, along with Matthew Vaughn’s Argylle, The Killer’s Game opposite Dave Bautista, and the MGM+ series Rogue Heroes. Next up, she’ll appear alongside Elizabeth Banks in the genre-bender DreamQuil, premiering at SXSW. She is repped by CAA, Untitled, 42, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.
Chaves is best known for his work inside The Conjuring Universe, on projects including The Curse of La Llorona, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, The Nun II, and The Conjuring: Last Rites, which broke ground last year as the highest-grossing film in the series, at nearly $500M worldwide. He is repped by CAA and Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum.
Gaffney is repped by Verve and Wonder Street; Tretta by Adventure Media and Behr Abramson Levy Johnson.

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