Sandra Mae Frank and Mekhi Phifer have signed on to co-star alongside Joel Kinnaman and Mark Sturdy in Brad Anderson’s upcoming motion thriller The Silent Hour.

Anderson (Beirut, The Machinist) will direct the movie from an authentic script by Dan Corridor, with precept images set to start in Malta and Toronto in late February. The Silent Hour is being financed and produced by Stuart Ford’s AGC Studios with producer Eric Paquette’s Meridian Photos.

Kinnaman stars as a Boston police detective who suffers listening to loss after an on-the-job accident. Sixteen months later, he and his pal and accomplice (Sturdy) workforce as much as battle corrupt cops making an attempt to remove a deaf homicide witness within the house constructing the place she lives.

Frank, who can at the moment be seen in NBC’s New Amsterdam, and appeared on the Netflix sequence Dawn, will play Ava, the homicide witness. Phifer (8 Mile, Divergent), performs Lynch, the ringleader of the rotten cops. The veteran actor most lately appeared on the Disney+ sequence Love, Victor.

Suicide Squad actor Kinnaman will subsequent been seen alongside Nicolas Cage within the crime auctioneer Sympathy for the Satan from The Operative director Yuval Adler. Sturdy could be seen in Todd Discipline’s Oscar contender Tár, alongside Cate Blanchett.

AGC Worldwide, AGC Studios’ worldwide gross sales and distribution arm, launched The Silent Hour to consumers on the American Movie Market final November, the place it bought properly, closing a number of offers throughout Europe, Asia and Latin America. Among the many main European offers, AGC closed all-rights agreements with Sq. One Leisure in Germany; Signature Leisure within the U.Okay., Eire, Australia and New Zealand; and Wild Bunch in France.

Katie McGrath of KMR & Associates negotiated the casting settlement on behalf of Frank; Gersh and Brookside Artist Administration on behalf of Phifer; and Anant Tamirisa, SVP of Authorized and Enterprise Affairs, on behalf of AGC Studios.  

Frank is repped by KMR & Associates. Phifer is repped by Gersh and Brookside Artist Administration.