After Victoria & Abdul and Death on the Nile, Ali Fazal has signed his subsequent Hollywood venture. He will star in American filmmaker Ric Roman Waugh’s motion film Kandahar, Deadline reported, and the filming has already begun.
Scottish actor Gerard Butler, identified for Zack Snyder’s historic epic movie 300 and Has Fallen collection, leads the solid as an undercover CIA agent referred to as Tom Harris. As per the publication, Harris is caught in hostile territory and should band with an Afghan translator to efficiently evade “elite special forces” to succeed in an extraction level within the titular Afghan metropolis.
Kandahar additionally stars Iranian-American actor Navid Negahban, the Sultan in Disney’s live-action remake.
Screenwriter Mitchell LaFortune has used his personal experiences as an intelligence operative to pen the script.
On paper, and judging by the historical past of Waugh and Butler’s earlier collaborations, the movie’s plot sounds fairly formulaic.
Deadline additional reported that Kandahar would be the first Hollywood manufacturing to shoot 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 instances. It was earlier scheduled to be launched in October 2020, however the pandemic ensured the delay.
Rape allegations in opposition to one of many stars, Armie Hammer, additionally put a spanner within the works. The film additionally stars Gal Gadot, Annette Bening, Russell Brand, Dawn French, Rose Leslie, Emma Mackey, Sophie Okonedo, Jennifer Saunders and Letitia Wright.
The Kenneth Branagh directorial is at present slated to be launched on February 11, 2022.
