EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-nominated actress Vera Farmiga is boarding Walden Media‘s Chilly Battle thriller Billion Greenback Spy reverse Russell Crowe and Harry Lawtey. Cameras are about to roll.
Tailored from the acclaimed e-book by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David E. Hoffman, Billion Greenback Spy follows Adolf Tolkachev (Crowe), who in actual life risked every thing to go hundreds of pages of top-secret Soviet intelligence to the USA. Regardless of repeated rejections by a cautious CIA, Tolkachev continued, embodying the braveness to face towards a regime that betrayed its personal individuals.
Lastly discovering an ally in CIA agent Tom Lenihan (Lawtey), Tolkachev was capable of shift the steadiness of energy, proving that true patriotism lies not in blind allegiance, however within the willingness to problem a authorities when it strays from its beliefs.
Farmiga will play Natasha Tolkachev, spouse of Tolkachev.
BAFTA Award-winner Amma Asante is directing. Oscar-winning author Stephen Gaghan (Site visitors, Syriana) wrote the newest draft, revising a script penned by Ben August. Pic is produced by Walden Media and Weed Street.
Frank Smith, Benjamin Tappan, and Cher Hawrysh of Walden Media are producing alongside Akiva Goldsman and Greg Lessans of Weed Street Photos. Jane Hooks and Naia Cucukov are govt producers. Pioneer Stillking Movies’ Ildiko Kemeny, David Minkowski, and Ferenc Szále will function co-producers. Hanway Movies is dealing with worldwide gross sales. CAA Media Finance is dealing with home rights.
Farmiga obtained a 2010 Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for Jason Reitman’s Up within the Air. Whereas her early function credit embrace Jonathan Demme’s The Manchurian Candidate and Joan Chen’s Autumn in New York, she broke out in a lead position in Martin Scorsese’s Oscar profitable The Departed. She is understood for taking part in the position of paranormal investigator Lorraine Warren in New Line’s The Conjuring franchise which counts $2.25 billion together with The Nun and Annabelle spinoffs. She’ll reprise that position within the upcoming The Conjuring: Final Rites due out on Sept. 5. She’s additionally starring within the film about Heaven’s Gate cult, The Chief, reverse Michael C. Corridor and Tim Blake Nelson. Farmiga is represented by CAA, Genuine and Peikoff Mahan.
