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Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston will team up with Oscar nominee Lily Gladstone for Lone Wolfa new action thriller. Cranston remains best known for his role as antihero Walter White on the acclaimed AMC drama Breaking Badwhich was completed in 2013. Gladstone, for his part, had his breakup last year with Martin Scorsese Flower Moon Assassinswhich earned her a Best Actress nomination at the Oscars.
Deadline now reports that Cranston and Gladstone will star together Lone Wolfan action thriller directed by Mark Pellington (Arlington Road). Tom Chilcoat wrote the script for the film, which will feature Gladstone as a troubled combat veteran recruited by Cranston’s hired character into a secret plot to assassinate a politician. After realizing that it was a setup, Gladstone’s character must face shadow agents to protect his son. Pellington describes the film as a “character-based thriller.”
Producers for Lone Wolf include Ted Hope and his Double Hope banner and Christine Vachon of Killer Films. Speaking about the film’s cast, Vachon said the following: “We couldn’t ask for a better cast than Lily and Bryan. Each of them is deeply committed to the roles. Every one said ‘yes!’ days after we ship.”
The project is in association with Jordan Yale Levine and Jordan Beckerman of Yale Productions. Rabbits Black provides financial support for the film. The film’s executive producers include Sean Krajewski, Lawrence Minicone, Ronnie Exley, Jeremy Ross, Edmund Lowell, Will Hirschfeld, Nicholas Donnermeyer, Jonathan Bijari, Scott Levenson, Barry Schneider, Marsha L. Swinton and Jason Kringstein. Jeremy Rothstein, Declan Morgan and Brandon Freeman are co-executive producers.
What Gladstone and Cranston’s Casting Means for Lone Wolf
Both actors are highly acclaimed
While Lone WolfWhile the story doesn’t seem particularly groundbreaking for the action thriller genre, Gladstone and Cranston could certainly elevate the material. In addition to being nominated for an Oscar for her role as Mollie Burkhart in the film, Flower Moon Assassins cast, Gladstone was also recently nominated for an Emmy for her work on Under the bridge, a Hulu limited series. She also recently starred Extravagant dancewhich currently has a 96% critic score on Rotten tomatoes.
Cranston, on the other hand, has 15 Emmy nominations and wins, including three consecutive wins for his role as Walter in Breaking Bad. After bidding farewell to the AMC show in 2013, Cranston continues to appear regularly in TV and film, including in Argyle at the beginning of this year and in Your Honora popular crime drama that ran for two seasons. Cranston and Gladstone appearing in Lone Wolfso it will certainly elevate the material and mean audiences are likely to get some powerful performances.
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Source: Deadline