A wild hostage comedy-drama film, starring Chris Evans and Anya Taylor-Joy, is now streaming on Netflix. The action-satire Sacrifice follows a fading movie star caught in a deadly hostage crisis at a lavish Greek island gala.
Directed by Romain Gavras, Sacrifice follows a fading movie star named Mike Tyler (played by Evans), who attends a glamorous environmental charity gala on a Greek island hosted by tech billionaire Ben Bracken and his wife Gloria. Things take a violent turn when the event is hijacked by a radical cult led by Joan (played by Taylor-Joy).
Joan takes Mike and other high-profile guests hostage, believing that they must sacrifice three people to a nearby volcano within three days to prevent an extinction-level event. “What unfolds next is an inward journey and outward adventure, where the line between performance and belief—and salvation and sacrifice—begins to blur,” according to Netflix.
Who else stars in Chris Evans and Anya Taylor-Joy’s Sacrifice?
The film features an eclectic ensemble cast. Evans and Taylor-Joy lead the star-studded cast and are joined by Vincent Cassel, Salma Hayek, Ambika Mod, Sam Richardson, John Malkovich, Charli XCX, Yung Lean, Jade Croot, Miriam Silverman, and Jeremy O. Harris.
Cassel plays Ben Bracken, who gets kidnapped by Joan, while Hayek plays his wife Gloria Bracken. Lean and Croot portray Arthur and Louise, the siblings of Joan. Meanwhile, Malkovich plays Gunnar, Joan’s estranged father and Nobel Prize–winning volcanologist.
Director Gavras wrote the screenplay of the film alongside Will Arbery. The French filmmaker also serves as a producer with Robert Walak, Jacob Perlin, Gregory Jankilevitsch, Klaudia Śmieja-Rostworowska, and Giorgios Karnavas.
Sacrifice premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 6, 2025. The film received a limited theatrical release in Italy on August 12, 2026. Earlier in May 2026, Netflix acquired the distribution rights for the U.S. and French audiences.
Originally reported on ComingSoon.net.
