EXCLUSIVE: We are hearing that Netflix UK , after a bidding war with eight active parties, has prevailed with the Hal Ozsan written feature project Alpha . I’m told that Rocketman and Netflix Carry-On star Taron Egerton is circling, and that the project was snapped up for him.

Netflix declined to comment.

Alpha is billed as a fun, sexy, elevated genre title that explores the world of toxic masculinity, greed, and the mythos of success, a cross between American Psycho, the HBO Max series Industry and American Werewolf in London. In Alpha, a mild-mannered American analyst climbs the ranks of a ruthless London investment firm, only to discover a horror more frightening than the industry itself: the insatiable monster awakening within him.

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