Later Victoria and Abdul And Death on the Nile, Ali Fazal has signed his subsequent Hollywood mission. He will star in American filmmaker Rick Roman Waugh’s motion movie Kandahar, Deadline reported, and filming has begun.
Scottish actor Gerard Butler, finest identified for Zack Snyder’s historic epic movie 300 and the Has Fallen sequence, leads the solid as an undercover CIA agent named Tom Harris. According to the publication, Harris is trapped in hostile territory and should band with an Afghan translator in order that Titanic can attain an extraction level in an Afghan metropolis with a purpose to efficiently escape “elite special forces”.
Disney’s live-action remake of Kandahar additionally stars Sultan, Iranian-American actor Navid Neghaban.
Screenwriter Michelle LaFortune has used her personal experiences as an intelligence operative to pen the script.
On paper, and given the historical past of Waugh and Butler’s earlier collaborations, the movie’s plot appears very formulaic.
Deadline additional reported that Kandahar would be the first Hollywood manufacturing to be shot solely in Saudi Arabia.
Meanwhile, Ali Fazal’s Death on the Nile, based mostly on Agatha Christie’s well-known detective novel of the identical title, has been delayed a number of occasions. It was earlier scheduled to launch in October 2020, however the pandemic ensured a delay.
Rape allegations towards one of many stars, Armie Hammer, additionally hampered the work. The movie additionally stars Gal Gadot, Annette Bening, Russell Brand, Don French, Rose Leslie, Emma Mackey, Sophie Okonedo, Jennifer Saunders and Letitia Wright.
The Kenneth Branagh directorial is presently slated to launch on February 11, 2022.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
