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THE INFORMER: Joel Kinnaman Makes Each Second Count In The Official Trailer

Common may not be returning to his assassin’s story in John Wick: Parabellum, but he’s a cop with a bone to pick opposite starring actor Joel Kinnaman who plays a stoic turncoat for the law in director Andrea di Stefano’s The Informer. Formerly titled Three Seconds, Aviron Pictures is delivering the new crime drama on March 22, and with a trailer that further sets things in stone featuring actresses Rosamund Pike, Ana de Arma, and actor Clive Owen.

Crime Novel Adaptation, THREE SECONDS, Lands At Aviron Pictures

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Production recently wrapped from a script written by Matt Cook with suceeding revisions by Rowan Joffé and Alex Garland, and then DiStefano. Thunder Road Pictures’ Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee, and The Fyzz Facility’s Wayne Marc Godfrey, Robert Jones, Mark Lane and James Harris are producing along with Ollie Madden. The Fyzz Facility is also financing the film with Thunder Road’s Jonathan Fuhrman and Magnolia Entertainment’s Shelley Browning serving as executive producers. Jason Resnick brokered the deal for Aviron Pictures as head of acquisitions. Bloom is handling international sales.

THREE SECONDS Novel Adaptation Starts The Clock At Cannes With Cast Reveal

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With sales kicking off at Cannes on Wednesday, Bloom has unveiled as part of its slate, Escobar: Paradise Lost helmer Andrea Di Stefano’s Three Seconds. The new action thriller, inspired by the 2015 novel from Swedish award-winning author duo Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström, is currently in pre-production and has actress Rosamund Pike (The World’s End) and actors Joel Kinnaman (Suicide Squad), Common (John Wick: Chapter Two) and Clive Owen (Shoot ‘Em Up) starring.

The film, written by Matt Cook with suceeding revisions by Rowan Joffé and Alex Garland, and then DiStefano sees ex-con and former spec-ops soldier Pete Hoffman who, in the last-inning struggle to free himself from the grip of crooked FBI handlers trying to infiltrate the Polish mob drug trade in New York City, finds him undercover, back behind bars, and in an explosive race against time before his identity is exposed. Thunder Road’s Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee are producing alongside financier The Fyzz Facility’s own Wayne Marc Godfrey, Robert Jones, Mark Lane, James Harris and Ollie Madden.

Jonathan Fuhrman of Thunder Road and Shelley Browning of Magnolia Entertainment are executive producing. (Deadline)