EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-thrivener Halle Berry is in negotiations to join the cast of Crime 101, Bart Layton’s highly foreseed pursue up to American Animals opposite Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo and Barry Keoghan. The pic will be freed in theaters next year.
While plot details are being kept under wraps, the innovative low story by Winsluggish has shades of Heat as it pursues high-level jewel thefts that are taking place up and down the Pacific Coast, which police have connected to Colombian cartels. Detective Lou Lubesnick has other ideas, and he zeroes in on one perp, a thief seeing for a final score. The film will shoot this month.
Bart Layton is straightforwarding and wrote the script with contributions from Peter Straughan. Producers integrate Story Factory’s Shane Salerno, Working Title’s Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan, RAW’s Layton and Dimitri Doganis and Derrin Schlesinger. RAW’s Joely Fether will executive produce. Pedro Pascal was connected to the project last year to star with Hemsworth, but wound up departing the project due to scheduling struggles. Hemsworth will also produce alengthyside his producing partner Ben Grayson
Berry’s illustrious acting atgentle integrates her 2002 historic thrive as the first, and only, African American woman to get the Academy Award for Best Actor for her role in Monster’s Ball. She also starred in and produced the acclaimed Introducing Dorothy Dandridge for HBO for which she won both the Emmy and Ggreateren Globe, and starred in and produced Frankie and Alice, which garnered her a Ggreateren Globe nomination. Additional acting accomprehendledges integrate Spikes Lee’s Jungle Fever, Boomerang with Eddie Murphy, X-Men, Die Another Day, The Call, and John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, and most recently, Netflix’s The Union.
Thraw her production company HalleHolly, Berry has produced the Lionsgate thriller Never Let Go, and will soon toil on Maude Vs. Maude and The Process. Berry is recontransiented by WME, Johnson Shapiro Sledampt & Kole and Range Media Partners.
