Atomic Blonde is a 2017 American action thriller film directed by David Leitch (receiving his first credit as feature film director[3][4]) from a screenplay by Kurt Johnstad, based on the 2012 graphic novel The Coldest City by Antony Johnston and Sam Hart.

The film stars Charlize Theron (who also served as a co-producer), James McAvoy, John Goodman, Til Schweiger, Eddie Marsan, Sofia Boutella, and Toby Jones.

The story revolves around a spy who has to find a list of covert agents that is being smuggled into the West on the eve of the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

Atomic Blonde premiered at South by Southwest on March 12, 2017, and was released in the United States on July 28, by Focus Features.

Percival meets with Bremovych and offers Satchel's identity "to keep the balance", and tips him off about their plan to extricate Spyglass.

Speaking with an American accent, she tells Bremovych she always fed him misinformation to manipulate the KGB, and kills him.

In addition, Sam Hargrave and Bill Skarsgård make brief appearances as MI6 agent James Gascoigne and as Lorraine's East German contact and presumed CIA ally Merkel, respectively.

Daniel Bernhardt also played a strong thug working for Bremovych who fights Lorraine several times.

[8] Theron's interest in the first John Wick movie inspired her to get David Leitch, one of the directors, to helm the project.

[10] According to Theron, the success of Mad Max: Fury Road helped guide the development of Atomic Blonde.

[12] Leitch has insisted that the scenes are not there to be "provocative", but "more about if you are a spy you will do whatever it takes to get information" and how the main character "find[s] her intimacies and her friendships in small doses".

[13][14] It was originally hoped that David Bowie would play a part in the film, although he turned down the offer shortly before his death.

[15] To prepare for the role, Theron worked with eight personal trainers, who "basically made [her] puke every single day".

The website's critical consensus reads, "Atomic Blonde gets enough mileage out of its stylish action sequences – and ever-magnetic star – to make up for a narrative that's somewhat less hard-hitting than its protagonist.

This is the recipe for the quite ridiculous, ultra-violent and deliriously entertaining Atomic Blonde, a slick vehicle for the magnetic, badass charms of Charlize Theron, who is now officially an A-list action star on the strength of this film and Mad Max: Fury Road.

"[34] Writing for Rolling Stone, Peter Travers praised the cast and fight scenes, giving it 3 stars out of 4 and saying, "It's the fight scenes that count – and they're astonishingly good, from a mano-a-mano beatdown involving Theron's stiletto heel and a thug's jugular vein to a climactic free-for-all in a swanky hotel suite where 99 Luftballons scores every gunshot and gut-punch.

[38][39] By July 2019, Leitch announced that the project is in development as a production deal with a streaming service company, while the filmmaker's wife Kelly McCormick, will return as producer.

[41] In July 2017, Leitch was asked about the potential of a crossover film featuring Atomic Blonde and the John Wick franchise.