Last seen stealing scenes in Ant-Man and helping Matt Damon escape the dusty clutches of Mars in The Martian, Michael Pena will be front and centre for a new action thriller called The Worker.
Described as a blend of Taken and the Bourne films, The Worker finds Pena as a Mexican special ops agent working deep undercover to take down one of the big drug cartels. But when his cover is blown, he has to leave the job and go into a protection programme in Los angeles with his family.
Our hero starts a much more mundane new life as a day worker, but is nonetheless happy that his wife and son are safe... Until, that is, some cartel operatives kidnap them and he has to go all Bryan Mills to get them back.
Dan Bradley, a second unit and action specialist who made his directing debut with 2012's Red Dawn remake is in the big chair for this one, so clearly no one is holding his last film against him. The rights for this one, which boasts Jeremy Renner as one of its producers, will be on sale at the European Film Market in Berlin this month.
Pena has worked on John Michael McDonagh's new film War On Everyone and is playing Ponch in Dax Shepard's new action comedy based on TV cop drama CHiPs. He'll next shoot Collateral Beauty alongside Will Smith and Helen Mirren.