Hilary Swank To Star In Motion-Thriller ‘Nar’ With Peter Berg Amongst Producers & WME Unbiased Launching Gross sales — AFM – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank (Million Greenback Child) is ready to star in and executive-produce Nar, a character-driven action-thriller, which WME Worldwide is launching for world gross sales forward of subsequent week’s AFM in LA.

Set in Latin America, Swank will play a downed pilot, wounded and remoted deep in hostile territory, whose survival depends on trusting a stranger who claims to be a part of an unlimited secret community designed to convey her to security. N.A.R. (Non-conventional Assisted Restoration) is the identify of an precise US Protection Division program. 

The movie is scheduled to shoot in fall of 2023.   

Written by Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar  (Jockey), producers are David Thwaites and John Logan Pierson alongside Deepwater Horizon director and Friday Night time Lights director and exec Peter Berg for Movie 44. Kwedar will direct. Profession counterintelligence officer and NAR handler Bryan Stern will function government producer. 

Kwedar’s debut as a function director was Transpecos, a thriller set inside the USA Border Patrol. It premiered in competitors on the 2016 SXSW Movie Pageant the place it received the Viewers Award and was acquired by Samuel Goldwyn Movies for theatrical  launch. Bentley and Kwedar’s second outing, Jockey, which they each wrote with Bentley directing, premiered on the 2021 Sundance Movie Pageant the place it was acquired by Sony Photos Classics and nominated for 2 Unbiased Spirit Awards.  

Swank can presently be seen starring in and executive-producing the ABC / Hulu sequence Alaska Each day, created by Oscar winner Tom McCarthy (Highlight). She most not too long ago wrapped manufacturing on the impartial function Mom’s Milk, directed by Miles Joris-Peyrafitte reverse Olivia Cooke and Jack Reynor, in addition to the Lionsgate function Peculiar Angels reverse Jack Reacher breakout star Alan Ritchson. 

 Swank is represented by WME, Leisure 360, and legal professional Jeff Bernstein. Bentley and Kwedar are represented by Black Bear Photos, Fusion Leisure, and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.