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Mark Wahlberg And Riz Ahmed To Star In Crime Thriller ‘The Big Fix’ From Baltasar Kormákur, Chernin Entertainment And Netflix

January 21, 2026

L-R: Mark Wahlberg, Riz Ahmed and Baltasar Kormakur WME/Sharif Hamza/Karwai Tang/Getty EXCLUSIVE: Before its highly-anticipated Charlize Theron thriller, Apex bows later this spring, Netflix and Chernin Entertainment have already found their next project for director Baltasar Kormákur which will team him up with a familiar face. Sources tell deadline, Mark Wahlberg and Riz Ahmed are set to star in the Netflix and Chernin thriller The Big Fix, with Kormákur on board to direct. Guy Bolton and Justin Haythe are penning the script with Kormákur producing along with Peter Chernin and David Ready for Chernin.

Mark Wahlberg, Riz Ahmed and Baltasar Kormakur

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Inspired by a true story, The Big Fix follows a former Interpol cop in a bureaucratic role at FIFA who uncovers an international match-fixing scandal and launches a high-stakes mission to stop whoever is behind it.
His target: a passionate hustler who joins forces with Chinese Triads to earn millions of dollars rigging football games across the world.
As they start to circle one another, a high-octane, globetrotting cat-and-mouse thriller ensues – pitting two defiant, determined men against each other.
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Watch on Deadline One of Netflix’s big swings for the first half of 2026 is the upcoming survival thriller Apex, which Kormakur directed with Theron Taron Egerton starring.

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Mark Wahlberg And Riz Ahmed To Star In Crime Thriller ‘The Big Fix’ From Baltasar Kormákur, Chernin Entertainment And Netflix

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