Chiwetel Ejiofor, Ben Stiller, Lily James, Stephen Merchant, Dule Hill, Jazmyn Simon and Mark Gatiss are in advance talks to join Anne Hathaway in the cast of Doug Liman’s pandemic heist thriller “Lockdown” at AGC Studios.
Steven Knight wrote the screenplay set against the COVID-19 lockdowns and tells the story of how a couple Linda (Hathaway) and Paxton (Ejiofor) who are constantly at each others’ throats agree to call a truce and attempt a high-risk, high-stakes jewelry heist at the world’s most exclusive department store, Harrods.
The project will actually be shot on location at the landmark Harrods store in London. Filming kicked off this week under strict pandemic filming protocols and production is expected to shoot for at leas the next few weeks.
P.J. van Sandwijk and Michael Lesslie, who conceived the story and managed to get it into production in just three months, are producing. Alison Winter is also producing.
Source: The Wrap
