Violence of Action
STX has picked up the rights to “The Nile Hilton Incident” director Tarik Saleh’s “Violence of Action” which sees the reunion of “Hell or High Water” pair Chris Pine and Ben Foster along with “Community” actress Gillian Jacobs.
Pine plays a former marine who joins an elite black ops team that travels to Eastern Europe to investigate a mysterious threat. While there, he finds himself betrayed and having to survive on his own while also trying to discover who double-crossed him. [Source: Deadline]
Untitled M. Night Shyamalan Film
Abbey Lee (“Mad Max: Fury Road”), Nikki Amuka-Bird (“Avenue 5”) and Ken Leung (“Lost”) have boarded the cast of M. Night Shyamalan’s top-secret new film alongside the previously announced Eliza Scanlen, Thomasin McKenzie, Aaron Pierre, Alex Wolff and Vicky Krieps.
Shyamalan will write, direct and produce the untitled film to be released by Universal Pictures. Story details are shrouded in secrecy and the film currently doesn’t have a release date. The aim is to begin production by the end of the year. [Source: Variety]
Dust
British actor Claire Foy (“The Crown”) is set to star in the self contained psychological horror feature “Dust”. Foy will play a young mother on a remote farmhouse in 1930s Oklahoma trapped by increasingly stifling dust storms. She takes extreme measures to protect her family while haunted by her past. Will Joines and Karrie Crouse (“Propagation”) are to direct from a script from Crouse. [Source: Variety]
Sharper
Julianne Moore will play a con artist in the world of Manhattan’s billionaire echelons in Apple, Picturestart and A24’s “Sharper”. The project is based on a spec script from Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka (“The Sitter”) and Moore will also produce with Bart Freundlich, Gatewood, Tanaka and Erik Feig. [Source: THR]
To Leslie
Jonathan Tucker, Andre Royo and Owen Teague will join previously announced cast members Andrea Riseborough, Allison Janney and John Hawkes in family drama “To Leslie” at BCDF Pictures and Clair de Lune Entertainment.
Michael Morris (“Better Call Saul,” “Bloodline”) will direct from Ryan Binaco’s screenplay about a single mother in West Texas (Riseborough) who wins the lottery but almost immediately squanders the money and her relationship with her son. Having burned many bridges, the film picks up as Leslie attempts to rebuild her life with help from lonely motel manager Nancy (Janney). [Source: Variety]
