Full Cast Announced in Chris Evans' Action-Thriller RED SEA DIVING RESORT

It looks like Captain America actor Chris Evans is adding to his "hero" portfolio by starring in Red Sea Diving Resort, a movie based on the real-life 1980s rescue mission of Ethiopian Jews from Sudan to Israel. 

ComingSoon.net reports Evans will be joined by an ensemble cast of Haley Bennett, Alessandro Nivola, Michael K. Williams, Michiel Huisman, Alex Hassell and Mark Ivanir, as well as Academy Award nominee Greg Kinnear and Oscar winner Sir Ben Kingsley.

The Red Sea Diving Resort is based on one of the most remarkable rescue missions ever, the exodus of the Ethiopian Jews from Sudan to Israel in the early ’80s. Evans plays Ari Kidron, the Mossad agent who led the mission. The story begins in the late ’70s, when the spy agency was given an assignment far different from its usual cloak-and-dagger activities when it was ordered to help in the transfer of thousands of Ethiopian Jews who were stuck in refugee camps in Sudan and deliver them to the Jewish state. No stranger to action in enemy countries, the agency established a covert forward base in a deserted holiday village in Sudan and deployed a handful of operatives (including a team of Ethiopians on the ground) to launch and oversee the exodus to the Promised Land, by sea and by air, in the early 1980s. The Mossad’s Red Sea Diving Resort operated for five years and saved thousands of refugees and brought them to Israel.

Red Sea Diving Resort starts shooting on June 22 in South Africa and Namibia.

For more about the movie check out our write-up from a few months ago.