Olivia Cooke (Solo) and Alden Ehrenreich (House of the Dragon) will star alongside Helen Mirren in the upcoming thriller film project Switzerland, which is currently shooting in Rome under the direction of Anton Corbijn.
Mirren takes on the role of American crime novelist Patricia Highsmith, and it’s said to take its cue from Highsmith’s Tom Ripley novels.
The story sees “Mirren playing the aging queen of thrillers fading away in Switzerland, where a young literary agent named Edward (Ehrenreich), tries to coax her out of retirement to pen one last installment of her popular ‘Ripley’ series.
“It soon becomes clear that the charming agent is on a more sinister mission. As they begin to collaborate on a new ‘Ripley’ plot, the world they live in and the one they are constructing become blurred.”
There’s no word on who Cooke is playing in the film.
As for the director, Corbijn is known for helming music videos for U2, Coldplay and Nirvana as well as films including Control, the biopic about Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, as well as A Most Wanted Man and The American.
Switzerland is based on an eponymous play by writer Joanna Murray-Smith, who also wrote the film’s script.
Source: Variety
