Clive Owen to Star in James Marsh Directed Espionage Thriller
Clive Owen will star in a new untitled espionage thriller from director James Marsh (Red Riding Trilogy, Man On Wire, The King). The director say's he's prepping to direct the film in Dublin in early may. The director says,
It's much more like Red Riding, it's a genre film, it's a thriller. It's very exciting to be doing something like that now, to have that kind of canvas to fill... It's low-budget film, it's not a Hollywood movie by any means.
The film was previously titled Shadow Dancer, and the story will center around the peace process in Northern Ireland set in the nineties.
At one point Guy Pearce and Rebecca Hall were attached to the project, but Marsh now has up-and-coming British actress Andrea Riseborough (Never Let Me Go, Brighton Rock) set as the female lead, a former IRA terrorist turned informer. He also brought in Aidan Gillen (The Wire) and The X-Files star Gillian Anderson as a supporting cast.
Owen is a great actor and Marsh is a talented director. This should turn out to be a solid movie.