Jack Huston and Emilia Clarke Starring in FBI Thriller ABOVE SUSPICION

Phillip Noyce is perhaps best known for the thrillers he directed in the '80s and '90s, like Dead Calm, Clear and Present Danger, Patriot Games, and The Bone Collector. After taking a detour into YA territory with The Giver in 2014, it sounds like Noyce is getting back to his bread and butter with Above Suspicion, a new thriller that has Jack Huston (Ben-Hur, Boardwalk Empire) and Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones, Terminator Genisys) on board to star.

Based on the 1993 book by author Joe Sharkey, the movie will tell the true story of a newly married FBI poster-boy assigned to an Appalachian mountain town in Kentucky. There he is drawn into an illicit affair with an impoverished local woman who becomes his star informant. She sees in him her means of escape; instead, it’s a ticket to disaster for both of them. This scandal shook the foundations of the nation’s top law enforcement agency, ending in the first ever conviction of an FBI agent for murder.

Sounds like a cool backwoods noir story, and I'm very excited to see Clarke continue to expand her range as an actress with a project that sounds completely unlike anything she's done so far. Chris Gerolmo (Mississippi Burning) is writing the screenplay, and production is scheduled to begin this month.

Side note: Noyce also directed Blind Fury, an insane movie featuring Rutger Hauer as a homeless blind swordsman, which Tyler and I talked about on an episode of our old Not Just New Movies Podcast a few years ago.