Oscar-winner Russell Crowe (Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind) has signed on to play a former homicide detective tasked with re-examining a brutal murder case from his past in the crime thriller Sleeping Dogs. The Nickel City Pictures film marks the directorial debut of Adam Cooper, who wrote the script with Bill Collage.
The film is an adaptation of E.O. Chirovici’s acclaimed novel, The Book of Mirrors. Cooper and Collage previously penned the scripts for Assassins Creed and Exodus: Gods and Kings.
Crowe is playing “Roy Freeman, who is undergoing a cutting-edge Alzheimer’s treatment. He is forced to grapple with the impact of an investigation from his former life after a death row inmate that Freeman arrested 10 years prior starts to proclaim his innocence. Intrigued and fighting to regain his memory, Freeman enlists his former partner to help him revive the case and discover the truth. Together, they set off to unravel a tangled web of secrets, forcing Freeman to make some horrific discoveries.”
Cooper said of Crowe taking on the role:
“Our memory of the past is what gives us context for who we are. A character who is bereft in this capacity comes with a very complex kind of humanity — and there’s no one better at embodying complex characters than Russell Crowe.”
Principal photography is slated to begin in January 2023.
via: Variety