Adam Cooper’s crime thriller debut, Sleeping Dogs, gets a first look this weekend out of Cannes as Highland Film Group and Nickel City Pictures handle world sales. The new photo features Russell Crowe and Tommy Flanagan who lead the cast from a script by Cooper and co-scribe Bill Collage (Assassins Creed, Exodus: Gods and Kings).
Adapted frim E.O. Chirovici’s critically acclaimed novel, “The Book of Mirrors,” Crowe plays ex-homicide detective Roy Freeman. In the wake of a cutting-edge Alzheimer’s treatment, Freeman is tasked with re-examining a brutal murder case from his past – the grisly murder of a college professor. Intrigued and fighting to regain his memory, Roy enlists his former partner (Flanagan) to help him revive the investigation. This time though, things unfold very differently when they encounter a magnetic and mysterious woman: as he uncovers a tangled web of contradictions and secrets, Roy is forced to face a horrific reality that changes his world forever in the blink of an eye.
Rounding out the cast are Karen Gillan (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3), Marton Csokas (The Lord of the Rings trilogy), Harry Greenwood (The Nightingale), and Thomas M. Wright (Universal Pictures’ Everest).
Mark Fasano of Nickel City’ produces alongside Cooper and Collage, and Deborah Glover and Pouya Shabazian of New Leaf Literary