It’s interesting to note that I first came across Joel Edgerton in the brilliant Australian crime epic Animal Kingdom, which was adapted into a quite-good TNT series this year without Edgerton or co-stars Ben Mendelsohn and Jacki Weaver.
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Red Sparrow, the upcoming espionage thriller from The Hunger Games franchise filmmaker Francis Lawrence, has rounded out its lead roles.
No production start date or release date has been revealed.
She is assigned to work against Nathaniel Nash – who will be played by Edgerton if the talks go well – a Central Intelligence Agency officer, and the two clash until the sexual attraction kicks in and outs them both at risk. Regardless, on the merits of seeing Lawrence and…
Frances Lawrence is set to direct. Jennifer has worked with Frances on The Hunger Games.
State intelligence officer Dominika Egorova struggles to survive in the cast-iron bureaucracy of post-Soviet intelligence.
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Red Sparrow is based on a novel of the same name and follows a Russian woman who is trained as a seductress in order to get information from a new to the field CIA agent, that had been tasked with collecting Russian intelligence. Dominika is eventually recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency and becomes a double agent, tasked with uncovering the identity of a Russian mole working at the highest levels of the U.S government, and quickly turns her sights back onto the Russian authorities that crossed her in the past. “The two young intelligence officers fall into a spiral of attraction and deception that results in her leading life as a double agent”.
