Nina Dobrev Joins Aaron Eckhart In Renny Harlin Action-Thriller ‘The Bricklayer’ — EFM
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: The Vampire Diaries and xXx: Return Of Xander Cage star Nina Dobrev has joined Aaron Eckhart (The Dark Knight) in action-thriller The Bricklayer, which will start next month in Europe.Cliffhanger and Die Hard 2 filmmaker Renny Harlin is directing the movie, which The Expendables outfit Millennium Media is producing with Gerard Butler after both teamed up with Eckhart on the lucrative Has Fallen franchise.
Millennium is selling at the upcoming virtual EFM.In The Bricklayer, someone is blackmailing the CIA by assassinating foreign journalists and making it look like the agency is responsible.
As the world begins to unite against the U.S., the CIA must lure its most brilliant – and rebellious – operative out of retirement, forcing him to confront his checkered past while unraveling an international conspiracy.The film is set to shoot at Millennium’s Nu Boyana Greece studio and its Nu Boyana Bulgaria facility.
Screenplay comes from Hannah Weg (Septembers of Shiraz) and Matt Johnson (Into the Blue).Producers are G-Base’s Alan Siegel, Butler and Danielle Robinson; Eclectic Pictures’ Heidi Jo Markel; and Millennium Media’s Jeffrey Greenstein, Les Weldon, Jonathan Yunger, Yariv Lerner and Rob Van Norden.
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