It was announced just a few days ago that Gerard Butler is taking the lead in personal crisis drama The Headhunter’s Calling. He’ll be joined by Willem Dafoe and Alfred Molina.
Butler is starring as a ruthless, hard-charging corporate headhunter called Dane Jensen, who has been surging at the company he works for and is primed to snatch the top job. But then his 10-year-old son falls gravely ill and Jensen’s priorities take a major shift. Dafoe is playing Butler’s boss, the CEO who is planning to retire and hand the reigns to his driven employee. Molina, on the other hand, will be a family-focused engineer who is struggling through unemployment.
Mark Williams, a producer on the likes of Flawless and Malice In Wonderland, is making his directorial debut with the film, written by The Judge’s Bill Dubuque and it’ll all start shooting later this month in Toronto.
Dafoe is fresh off of working on The Great Wall alongside Matt Damon, and is filming sci-fi thriller What Happened To Monday? Molina, last seen in We’ll Never Have Paris and HBO drama Show Me A Hero, will show up in the miniseries Close To The Enemy and Oscar’s Hotel For Fantastical Creatures (as a voice only on that one) and is typically busy on the big screen, having shot Paint It Black, Thank You For Being Honest, Sister Cities and Message From The King.