Netflix has gathered together a whole host of big names to star in new heist thriller Lift alongside the already cast Kevin Hart.

Avatar's Sam Worthington, Torchwood's Burn Gorman, and Spider-Man: Homecoming's Jacob Batalon have all signed up to star in the movie for the streaming service, according to Deadline.

Hart will be playing a master thief who is wooed by his ex-girlfriend and the FBI to pull off an impossible heist with his international crew on a 777 jet flying from London to Zurich.

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Also on board to star in the movie are Loki's Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Daredevil's Vincent D'Onofrio, The People v OJ Simpson: American Crime Story's Billy Magnussen, Money Heist's Úrsula Corberó and Peaky Blinders star Paul Anderson.

Directing duties will go to F. Gary Gray (Men in Black: International), with Dan Kunka and Jeremy Doner penning the script.

Netflix has a lot going on right now with upcoming shows and movies already in the pipeline, so this is the next in a whole host of new content coming to the streaming service.

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