EXCLUSIVE: Malin Akerman (Watchmen) and Michael Jai White (The Darkish Knight) are set to steer spy thriller Spymasters from writer-director Lance Kawas.
Bleiberg Leisure has boarded worldwide rights to the movie forward of the Cannes market with filming attributable to start within the U.S. on the finish of the summer season.
Described as a throwback to the “high-stakes erotic thrillers of the ’90s, coupled with trendy motion and depth”, the movie facilities on a CIA operative (White) assigned to surveil and presumably remove a former lover (Akerman), a harmful and enigmatic determine inside the company identified for her psychological prowess and covert affect over the world’s elite.
Pic is produced by Asif Akbar, Colin Bates, Jon Keeyes, Demetrius Stear, Mandi Murro, and Lance Kawas for Whispered Madness the Film, LLC, with government manufacturing by Fadi Assaf for FilmLens. Ehud Bleiberg, Ariel Bleiberg and Nicholas Bennett from Bleiberg Leisure has additionally come onboard as government producers. Casting was led by Gabrielle Almagor for City Tales.
Negotiations have been dealt with by Nicholas Bennett on behalf of Bleiberg Leisure.
“We’re excited to make the movie and work with these actors,” stated Lance Kawas and Asif Akbar. “We beloved the thought of constructing a movie like this that hearkens again to the old fashioned high-stakes horny thrillers of the 90s like Fundamental Intuition or Deadly Attraction however with a contact of extra motion and depth.”
“We’re thrilled to be representing this movie. To have this forged portraying the 2 traditional tropes of the crafty femme fatale and the hardened CIA murderer and watch them notice they nonetheless have emotions for each other whereas every is attempting to outsmart and outmaneuver and in the end defeat the opposite. It’s going to be plenty of enjoyable,” added Ariel Bleiberg, Head of Acquisitions and Improvement at Bleiberg.
