New Line has nabbed itself an Oscar-winning team for a new political drama.
Gavin Hood – who took home the award for Best Foreign Film with Tsotsi this year – will direct Rendition, a tale of torture and its ramifications set in Egypt.
And fellow statuette-bagger Reese Witherspoon has also signed on to star, alongside fellow nominee Jake Gyllenhaal. The plot follows an Egyptian-born US citizen, a chemical engineer who is suspected of terrorism and shipped off to a third world country for interrogation by the Egyptian secret police. A CIA agent (Gyllenhaal) unwittingly witnesses the torture and is soon in mortal peril. As he tries to stay alive, he’ll have to save the man’s wife, (Witherspoon) a pregnant American.
The cameras will start to crank in November – and we hope everyone’s passport is up to date, as the shooting schedule includes locations in LA, Washington, Morocco, Mexico and Cape Town.