If you’re a sales company headed to the Cannes film market with a movie to push, it helps if you can put together a package including a couple of name actors and a director with some traction. Good Universe thinks it might be on to a winner with High Wire Act, a new action thriller that boasts Jon Hamm attached to the lead and The Call’s Brad directing.
And, as a bonus, the script comes from Michael Clayton’s Tony Gilroy, once more bubbling up a politically infused tale of deception and danger. In this case, Hamm will be a former US diplomat in 1980s Beirut who saw his family killed by a violent group. Now the same people are threatening one of his colleagues, and he’ll have to be the one to save them. There’s no schedule for the film to start shooting yet.
The final episodes of Hamm’s time on Mad Men are on the air now, and he’ll next be heard as Herb Overkill in Despicable Me spin-off Minions, which arrives on June 26. He’s also attached to star in Keeping Up With The Joneses and will be part of the sprawling cast for Netflix’s Wet Hot American Summer prequel First Day Of Camp. Anderson has Stonehearst Asylum in UK cinemas now and worked on episodes of US TV thriller Zoo, which airs this summer.
from Empire News
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