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Archive photograph, for illustration. Keanu Reeves at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas.

Keanu Reeves to replace Alan Ritchson in Netflix film *Maelstrom*

Archive photograph, for illustration. Keanu Reeves at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas. · 2014 · anna Hanks · CC BY 2.0
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Keanu Reeves will take over Alan Ritchson’s role in Netflix action film *Maelstrom*, according to a report citing Deadline. The film’s release date has not been announced.

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Keanu Reeves is set to replace Alan Ritchson in Netflix action film *Maelstrom*, playing a federal agent who must protect the fiancée of a weapons trafficker, Nieuws.nl reports, citing Deadline.

The story follows the agent and the woman as they try to survive a night cut off from communications and reinforcements by a hurricane. Jaume Collet-Serra, who directed Netflix’s *Carry-On*, will direct the film.

Netflix declined to comment to Deadline on the casting, according to Nieuws.nl. No release date has been announced. Reeves was also reported to be in talks for a US remake of the South Korean crime thriller *The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil*; that is a separate project.

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