The Zealot is an upcoming American thriller film directed by Vadim Perelman, based on the 2016 play Damascus by Bennett Fisher. It stars Kodi Smit-McPhee and Djimon Hounsou.
Hounsou plays Hassan, a Somali-American shuttle driver who gets an offer from a mysterious passenger to take him from Minneapolis to Chicago. Unbeknownst to Hassan, his passenger has a dark and potentially catastrophic purpose.
WestEnd Films announced the project at Cannes. The movie began filming in Winnipeg in fall 2024 and had finished filming by November 2024.
In February 2026, Vertical acquired North American distribution rights to the film.