Brad Anderson’s new feature is a sci-fi action-thriller titled World Breaker. The ambitious project is toplined by Luke Evans (Beauty and the Beast) and Milla Jovovich (Resident Evil). The two actors previously worked together on Paul WS Anderson’s 2011 flick The Three Musketeers [+lire aussi :
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fiche film]. The announcement was first reported by Variety.

Anderson kicked off his career in 1995. Active as a director, producer and writer, the Madison-born filmmaker is best known for Session 9 (2001), The Machinist [+lire aussi :
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Anderson’s new film, set to be filmed in Northern Ireland and penned by Joshua Rollins (Infinite Storm [+lire aussi :
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World Breaker is being staged by Martin Brennan (Zone 414, One Way) for British outfit 23ten, with backing from Northern Ireland Screen. The producers hold the US rights.

Los Angeles-based firm The Exchange will be selling the project at this year’s European Film Market, running in Berlin from 15-21 February. The company’s line-up includes the likes of Orlando Bloom’s The Cut, Anna Faris’s I, Object, Peter Dinklage’s The Thicket and Zoe Saldana’s The Absence of Eden.