Jason Momoa will produce and star in Braven, an action-thriller about a seemingly humble logger on the U.S./Canada border who must defend his family from a group of deadly drug runners. Little do they know this quiet, unassuming man enjoys the thrill of the kill. Lin Oeding will direct based on a script by Thomas Pa’a Sibbett from an original story by Mike Nilon. Momoa is fitting smaller movies like this in now before he starts getting busy with Warner Bros.' Aquaman and Justice League films.
David Strathairn (The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) and Orange is the New Black's Uzo Aduba have joined the cast of American Pastoral, Ewan McGregor's directorial debut based on the Philip Roth novel. Jennifer Connelly and Dakota Fanning also star in the film about Seymour “Swede” Levov (McGregor), whose seemingly perfect family life is destroyed when his daughter commits an act of political terrorism in protest of the Vietnam War.
Analeigh Tipton, who can be seen right now in the gambling drama Mississippi Grind, has taken the title role in Sadie, a psychological thriller directed by Craig Goodwill. Penned by Brian Clark, the film centers on a young novelist played by Tipton, who along with an enigmatic woman named Charlotte head to an ex-lover's Italian villa to celebrate the release of Sadie's new book. Only when they arrive his true motivations are thrown into question, with the women becoming embroiled in a dangerous game of moral and sexual discovery.
