EXCLUSIVE: Aaron Eckhart will star within the Jesse V. Johnson-directed motion thriller Scorpion, written by Corey Large (Detective Knight trilogy) and Ed Drake (Gasoline Alley).
Within the film, a CIA murderer goes into hiding after he takes the autumn for a failed mission. When he reappears on the grid so does his previous to tie up free ends, and the one strategy to defend his daughter is to take down the company chief who set him up.
Scorpion is produced by Massive by means of his 308 Enterprises (Paradise Metropolis, It Follows). The movie is govt produced by Arclight Films’ Gary Hamilton, Jordan Nott, Pia Patatian, Jamie Thompson and Jon Keeyes and financed by Pink 308. Arclight Movies is dealing with world gross sales.
Eckhart obtained a Finest Actor Musical or Comedy Golden Globe nomination for Jason Reitman’s Thank You for Smoking and obtained an Impartial Spirit Award for Finest Debut Efficiency in Neil LaBute’s Within the Firm of Males. He starred in Warner Bros.’ blockbuster The Darkish Knight as District Lawyer Harvey Dent and in Lionsgate’s Rabbit Gap reverse Nicole Kidman. Further movie credit embody Warner Bros.’ Sully starring Tom Hanks, Roland Emmerich’s Halfway, Steven Soderbergh’s Erin Brockovich and Ben Youthful’s Bleed for This. He presently stars in Chief of Station with Olga Kurylenko and Alex Pettyfer and might subsequent be seen in Renny’s Harlin’s Deep Water reverse Ben Kingsley.
He’s repped by CAA and Hirsch, Wallerstein, Hayum, Matlof & Fishman.
Massive is producing by means of his 308 Enterprises. He’s additionally producing Assassination, directed by Barry Levinson and starring Oscar-winner Al Pacino. Further initiatives embody Demian Lichtenstein’s motion thriller The Razor’s Edge starring James Franco and Tommy Lee Jones.
Arclight Movies’ present slate of movies additionally contains Paul Schrader’s Cannes competitors title Oh, Canada starring Richard Gere, Uma Thurman and Jacob Elordi; Michelle Danner’s romantic comedy Beneath the Stars starring Toni Collette, Andy Garcia and Alex Pettyfer; Renny Harlin’s epic survival thriller Deep Water; Stefan Ruzowitzky’s thriller Ice Fall starring Joel Kinnaman and Cara Jade Myers; and the comedy Arthur’s Whisky starring Oscar winner Diane Keaton, Patricia Hodge and singer-actress Lulu.