Emily Blunt To Star in ‘Pain Hustlers’ For Director David Yates; The Veterans, CAA Media Finance Launching Sales At Cannes
deadline.comEmily Blunt (Oppenheimer) is attached to star in the upcoming film Pain Hustlers, from director David Yates (Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore).
Pic will be introduced to buyers at the Cannes Film Market by The Veterans and CAA Media Finance, going into production in late August.Pain Hustlers is said to be tonally similar to such films as The Big Short, American Hustle and The Wolf of Wall Street.
The film centers on Liza Drake (Blunt), a high-school dropout dreaming of a better life for her and her young daughter, who lands a job with a failing pharmaceutical start-up in a yellowing strip mall in Central Florida.
Liza’s charm, guts and drive catapult the company and her into the high life, where she soon finds herself at the center of a criminal conspiracy with deadly consequences.Wells Tower wrote the script.
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