Kerry Washington and Steven Yeun be a part of the solid of Animals, a kidnapping thriller directed by and starring Ben Affleck.
THR stories that Kerry Washington and Steven Yeun have joined the solid of Animals, the kidnapping thriller which Ben Affleck is directing for Netflix.
Along with directing, Affleck will even star within the movie alongside Gillian Anderson. Animals “concerns a mayoral candidate and his wife whose son is kidnapped. Surrounded by plenty of enemies, political and otherwise, the husband and wife have no choice but to get their hands dirty in order to save their son.” Affleck performs the mayoral candidate, Washington performs his spouse, Anderson is a fixer, and Yeun is Affleck’s marketing campaign supervisor. The script was written by Connor McIntyre with revisions by Billy Ray.
Animals will probably be shot in Los Angeles. Affleck will produce alongside Matt Damon and Dani Bernfeld for Artists Fairness and Brad Weston and Collin Creighton for Makeready.
Initially, Animals was set to star Damon within the main position with Affleck simply directing, however some points with the rights pressured the mission to be placed on maintain. Affleck moved on to The Accountant 2, and by the point Animals was prepared to maneuver ahead once more, Damon was already hooked up to Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. Affleck wanted to maneuver ahead, so the simplest alternative was to only star in it himself.
Yeun will subsequent be seen in starring alongside Robert Pattinson in Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17. The sci-fi comedy will hit theaters on March 7. He will even star alongside Affleck and Damon in RIP, against the law thriller written and directed by Joe Carnahan. The movie follows a “team of Miami cops whose trust begins to fray when they discover millions in cash in a derelict stash house. As outside forces learn about the size of the seizure, everything for the team is called into question—including who they can rely on.” It can debut on Netflix this fall.
As for Washington, she’s a part of the all-star ensemble solid of Wake Up Lifeless Man: A Knives Out Thriller. The third installment of Rian Johnson’s Knives Out sequence naturally options Daniel Craig reprising the position of detective Benoit Blanc alongside Josh O’Connor, Glenn Shut, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack, and Thomas Haden Chuch. The movie will debut on Netflix later this yr.
