Anya Taylor-Joy Officially Returns to Netflix for ‘Queen’s Gambit’ Follow-Up in 1 Month

Anya Taylor-Joy has already added well over $1 billion to her career box office total in 2026, and as the year goes along, this total is only going to grow with more new releases. Taylor-Joy headlined the first $1 billion movie of 2026 with The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (co-starring Chris Pratt), but she then took her talents to streaming to star in one of the biggest Apple TV shows of the year, Lucky (co-starring Timothy Olyphant). ATJ previously starred in one of the most successful Apple TV sci-fi movies of all time in The Gorge, which is billed as a mash-up of John Wick and The Last of Us. Later this year, Taylor-Joy will return to the sands of Arrakis in Dune: Part Three, which is expected to be one of the highest-grossing movies of the year, despite opening on the same day as Avengers: Doomsday.

Although some years have passed since it was released, most fans would agree that The Queen’s Gambit is still one of Anya Taylor-Joy’s most famous projects. The show won a whopping 11 Emmys at the 2021 award ceremonies, most of which were technical awards — Taylor-Joy was nominated for her performance as Beth Harmon, but she didn’t win the award. Now six years removed from the premiere of The Queen’s Gambit, Taylor-Joy is officially returning to Netflix in one month with the premiere of Sacrifice, her new cult thriller co-starring Chris Evans. Taylor-Joy has had other movies streamed on Netflix in the last few years, but this will be the first project since The Queen’s Gambit that will only be available to watch on Netflix upon its global premiere.

When Does ‘Sacrifice’ Come Out on Netflix?

Netflix has officially announced that Sacrifice will begin streaming around the world on October 16, in almost exactly one month. Additional cast members for the film include Salma Hayek-Pinault and John Malkovich, and it was written and directed by Romain Gavras with help from Will Arbery on the script. The official synopsis for Sacrifice, which holds a score of 37% from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, reads as follows:

“After the fiery death of their mother, Joan (Anya Taylor-Joy) and her siblings, driven by a mysterious volcanic prophecy, believe it is their duty to cleanse the Earth. Their radical group hijacks a glamorous charity gala and takes three unlikely hostages for a sacrificial ritual: their hero, movie star Mike Tyler (Chris Evans); their villain, pragmatically cold billionaire Ben Bracken (Vincent Cassel); and their lover, an unlucky performer named Katie (Ambika Mod). As the night descends into chaos, both an inward journey and an outward adventure ensue, where the line between performance and belief, salvation and sacrifice, begins to blur.”