While he worried that he was jeopardizing his career with his recent outspokenness on racial injustice, John Boyega doesn't have to be concerned. He's already nabbed a new job, starring in IRA thriller Borderland alongside Felicity Jones, Jodie Turner-Smith and Jack Reynor.
The film will follow an Irish paramilitary, Michael (Reynor), who witnesses the shooting of his pregnant wife at the hands of an SAS sergeant named Tempest (Boyega) when a border ambush goes wrong. When Tempest is sent back to London to lead a covert counter-terrorist operation, Michael joins a ruthless active service unit (ASU) wreaking havoc in the capital. For Michael, the mission is personal – to hunt down Tempest – and he’ll stop at nothing to avenge his wife’s death.
The Uninvited co-directors Tom and Charles Guard wrote the script (inspired by the book The Road To Balcombe Street by Steven S. Moysey), and will call the shots. "Borderland is a vengeance fueled chase movie, fusing some pulse ticking action with a powerful message for our times," the directors say in a statement. "We’re thrilled that the script, driven as much by character as it is by plot, has attracted such a first rate cast."