Supermax Rounds Out Its Cast as David Gordon Green Starts Shooting in Australia
David Gordon Green's action thriller Supermax has added four new faces to its cast, with Nicholas Alexander Chavez, Andrés Almeida, Martin Bats Bradford and Erika Ringor joining a production already underway in New South Wales, Australia (Deadline).
The film pairs Will Smith and AnnaSophia Robb as two FBI agents investigating a seemingly impossible murder inside a maximum-security prison. Jaafar Jackson and Jason Clarke are also set for roles. Amazon MGM Studios and Miramax are backing the picture; Amazon MGM will release it on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.
Green directs from a script by David Weil and David J. Rosen. Andrew Rona and Alex Heineman of The Picture Company produce alongside Smith and Adam Fishbach of Westbrook Studios — the production company Smith co-founded, which has become a steady supplier of streaming-era star vehicles.
For the new arrivals, the casting marks a step onto a bigger stage. Chavez broke out playing Lyle Menendez in Ryan Murphy's Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, a Netflix limited series that turned the Menendez brothers' case into a cultural conversation. Almeida brings deep Mexican-cinema credentials, with credits spanning Alfonso Cuarón's Y tu mamá también and Alejandro González Iñárritu's Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths. Bradford has appeared in Richard Linklater's Hit Man, Justin Chon's Blue Bayou, Apple's The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey and Big George Foreman. Ringor, who previously worked with Smith on King Richard, counts Love & Basketball, Bosch: Legacy and The Morning Show among her credits.
What gives the project its shape is the chain of decisions behind it. Amazon MGM holds worldwide rights — a signal that the studio sees the film as a global streaming play rather than a theatrical bet, at least for now. Production is supported by the NSW Government through Screen NSW's Made in NSW Fund, an incentive programme that has drawn a steady stream of international productions to Australian sound stages by offsetting local spend. Green, whose directing career swings between horror revivals (Halloween, The Exorcist: Believer) and smaller character work (Prince Avalanche, Joe), here takes on a contained action-thriller premise — two investigators, one locked-down facility, a murder that should not have been possible.
Smith's involvement was first reported by Deadline in May 2026, when the project was announced as an Amazon MGM worldwide acquisition. Three months later, the cameras are rolling and the ensemble is filling out. No release date has been set.
