Joel Kinnaman, Rosamund Pike, Common and Clive Owen To Star In Andrea Di Stefano’s “Three Seconds”
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- Published on Thursday, 18 May 2017 08:11
BLOOM announced today that Joel Kinnaman, Academy Award nominee Rosamund Pike, Academy Award winner Common, and Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner Clive Owen will star in Andrea Di Stefano’s (Escobar: Paradise Lost) much-anticipated feature adaptation Three Seconds.
Based on the best-selling Swedish novel by Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström, the action thriller was written by Matt Cook with revisions by Rowan Joffé and Alex Garland with current revisions by DiStefano.
Thunder Road Pictures' Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee are producing alongside The Fyzz Facility’s Wayne Marc Godfrey, Robert Jones, Mark Lane and James Harris and Ollie Madden.
The Fyzz Facility are also financing the film. Thunder Road’s Jonathan Fuhrman and Magnolia Entertainment’s Shelley Browning are Executive Producers. BLOOM will handle international sales and introduce to buyers at the Cannes International Film Festival this week.
Three Seconds follows reformed-criminal and former special ops soldier Pete Hoffman who, in order to free himself from jail and return to his wife and daughter, has been working undercover for crooked FBI handlers to infiltrate the Polish mob’s drug trade in New York. In a final step towards freedom, Hoffman must return to the one place he’s fought so hard to leave, Bale Hill Prison, where his mission becomes a race against time when a drug deal goes wrong and threatens his identity as a mole. The film is currently in pre-production.
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BLOOM’s Alex Walton said: “In Escobar: Paradise Lost, Andrea DiStefano delivered a taut, suspenseful film. Andrea has collaborated with our elite production group to heighten Three Seconds into a fresh modern New York set thriller that can appeal to audiences worldwide.”
Di Stefano most recently wrote and directed Escobar: Paradise Lost starring Benicio Del Toro and Josh Hutcherson.
Kinnaman is best known for his starring role on AMC's “The Killing.” He recently starred in Suicide Squad for Warner Bros. with credits also including RoboCop, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Netflix’s “House of Cards” and the upcoming series “Altered Carbon,” also for Netflix.
Pike was nominated for an Academy Award for her leading role in Gone Girl, and has appeared in Jack Reacher, Pride & Prejudice, An Education, Surrogates and more. Academy Award Winning actor, Common, has appeared in Selma, Suicide Squad, John Wick: Chapter 2, Wanted, and Smokin’ Aces. Owen was nominated for an Academy Award for best performance in a Supporting Role and also won a Golden Globe in the same category for Mike Nichols’ Closer. He has starred in numerous critically acclaimed titles including Children of Men, Sin City, and Inside Man.
Di Stefano is represented by Verve Talent and Literary Agency and Magnolia Entertainment; Kinnaman is represented by WME and Magnolia Entertainment; Pike is represented by CAA and Magnolia Entertainment; Common is represented by CAA and Oasis Entertainment Management Group; and Owen by CAA and Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum Matlof and Fishman.
At Cannes, BLOOM will also be introducing Bill Holderman’s directorial debut Book Club starring Academy Award Winner Diane Keaton, Academy Award Winner Jane Fonda, and Academy Award Nominee Candice Bergen; Elizabeth Chomko’s What They Had starring Hillary Swank, Michael Shannon, Robert Forster, Taissa Farmiga, Josh Lucas, and Blythe Danner; and Matthew Heineman’s A Private War starring Rosamund Pike.
BLOOM’s diversified slate includes: Craig Zahler’s Dragged Across Concrete starring Academy Award® Winner Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn; Johannes Roberts’ The Strangers 2; Josh Trank’s Fonzo starring Tom Hardy; Scott Cooper’s Hostiles starring Christian Bale and Rosamund Pike; Martin Zandvliet’s The Outsider starring Jared Leto; Federico D’ Alessandro’s Tau starring Maika Monroe and Ed Skrein; Paul Weitz’s Bel Canto starring Julianne Moore and Ken Watanabe; Danny Strong’s Rebel in the Rye starring Nicholas Hoult; George Clooney’s Suburbicon starring Matt Damon and Julianne Moore; and Kate and Laura Mulleavy’s Woodshock starring Kirsten Dunst.
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About The Fyzz Facility
Established in 2010 by Wayne Marc Godfrey (“The Foreigner”) and Robert Jones (“The Usual Suspects”, “Dirty Pretty Things”, “Babylon”) The Fyzz Facility is a prolific film production and financing company that has invested over $200m into over 175 feature films over the last six years. With an aggregate production spend in excess of a billion USD, company credits include Martin Scorsese's Silence starring Liam Neeson, Rob Reiner’s Shock and Awe starring Woody Harrelson, Stephen Fingleton’s BAFTA nominated The Survivalist and Martin Campbell’s The Foreigner starring Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan. Upcoming projects include The Strangers 2, Final Score starring Dave Bautista and Matthew Holness’ darkly twisted debut feature Possum starring Sean Harris.
About Thunder Road Pictures
Basil Iwanyk is the founder and owner of Thunder Road Pictures, which he started in 2004. Thunder Road’s films have collectively grossed over $2 billion worldwide. Upcoming film credits include Wind River starring Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen and directed by Taylor Sheridan, which will screen in the Un Certain Regard competition at the upcoming Cannes 2017 Film Festival ; the Dev Patel and Armie Hammer starrer Hotel Mumbai, which is based on the Mumbai terrorist attack in 2008; The Current War, an upcoming American biographical historical film directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Shannon, Tom Holland and Katherine Waterston; and 24 Hours to Live starring Ethan Hawke.
Past films include: the epic action adventure Clash of the Titans, and its sequel, Wrath of the Titans; three installments of The Expendables; Brooklyn’s Finest; We Are Marshall; and Firewall. Iwanyk most notably produced the critically acclaimed drama The Town, directed by Ben Affleck, the action franchise John Wick: Chapter 2 and John Wick starring Keanu Reeves, both of which were critical and commercial successes. In 2015, he released the Oscar nominated Sicario, with its sequel Soldado in post.
