Marvel stars Karen Gillan and Martin Soukas have joined the cast of the Russell Crowe-led crime drama “Sleeping Dogs.”
According to the entertainment website VarietyThe film is an adaptation of EO Chirovici’s critically acclaimed novel “The Book of Mirrors”.
Adam Cooper and Bill Colledge wrote the screenplay. The film is also Cooper’s feature directorial debut.
The story centers on Crowe, a former homicide detective who, as a result of treatment for Alzheimer’s, is tasked with re-examining a brutal murder case from his past – a college Brutal murder of Professor (Csokas).
Fighting to regain his memory, the detective enlists his former partner to help revive the investigation. The plotline reads that they encounter a magnetic and enigmatic woman (Gilan), a tangle of contradictions and secrets and a terrifying reality that changes the detective’s worldview in the blink of an eye.
Nickel City Pictures’ Mark Fasano is producing the film alongside Cooper, Collage, Deborah Glover and New Leaf Literary’s Pouya Shabazian.
Matthew Goldberg, Cliff Roberts, Highland Film Group’s Erin Fraser and Delphine Perrier and Ford Corbett are executive producers.
