Oliver Trevena Joins Renny Harlin’s Action-Thriller ‘The Bricklayer’; Robert John Burke Boards 20th Century Studios’ ‘Boston Strangler’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Oliver Trevena (Wire Room, The Plane) has signed on to star alongside Aaron Eckhart and Nina Dobrev in the action-thriller, The Bricklayer, which is heading into production in Europe next month.In the film from director Renny Harlin, based on the novel by Noah Boyd, 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.Hanna Weg and Matt Johnson penned the script.
G-Base’s Alan Siegel, Butler and Danielle Robinson are producing with Eclectic Pictures’ Heidi Jo Markel, and Millennium Media’s Jeffrey Greenstein, Les Weldon, Jonathan Yunger, Yariv Lerner and Rob Van Norden.
Avi Lerner, Trevor Short, Boaz Davidson and Tanner Mobley from Millennium are serving as exec producers.Millenium’s partnership with Butler on the film comes on the heels of their collaboration with Eckhart on the Has Fallen franchise, with Millennium also looking to sell the film at this year’s virtual EFM.
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