Joel Edgerton to star in Netflix series 'Trigger Point'; Jeremy Saulnier to direct

Blue Ruin and Rebel Ridge director Jeremy Saulnier is gearing up to direct a series for Netflix titled Trigger Point, marking another collaboration with actor Joel Edgerton (The Gift, Train Dreams).

Touted as an action drama, it is penned by Harrison Query, who will serve as showrunner, while Saulnier serves as an executive producer and handles directing duties on the eight-episode series.

The story follows an FBI agent tracking a Special Forces team that secretly sells its services to criminal organizations, using a private military contract firm as a cover. While the FBI agent has not yet been cast, Edgerton will play a former Special Forces operator.

The project is produced by acclaimed production house A24. Additional executive producers include Joe Hipps (House of Cards, Ozark) and Patrick Macdonald.

Meanwhile, Saulnier has also set up his next feature-length directorial, a horror-action thriller titled October, with actor Cory Michael Smith confirmed to headline the project. Interestingly, it is also backed by A24, with whom he previously collaborated on the thriller Famous, starring Zac Efron. Saulnier has earlier worked with the studio in Green Room, which starred Patrick Stewart and Anton Yelchin.

Aside from Trigger Point, Edgerton has completed filming for the second season of Apple TV's Dark Matter, co-starring Jennifer Connelly.

Also a filmmaker, Edgerton made his directorial debut in 2015 with The Gift, in which he also starred as a man with a dark past who stalks a husband and wife (Jason Bateman, Rebecca Hall).

He made his second directorial, Boy Erased, in 2018. The film starred Lucas Hedges as a homosexual boy forced to undergo conversion therapy. Edgerton played the therapist heading the program. Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman played the boy’s parents.

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