Crime Novel Adaptation, THREE SECONDS, Lands At Aviron Pictures
Following the May launch of Aviron Pictures at Cannes with last month’s release, Kidnap, the company has since added forthcoming action thriller, Three Seconds to its acquisitions ahead of this week’s kickoff at TIFF. Andrea DiStefano (Escobar: Paradise Lost) helms from a script adapted from the best-selling 2015 Swedish novel by Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström and stars Joel Kinnaman (Suicide Squad, RoboCop, The Killing), Academy Award nominee Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl, Jack Reacher), Academy Award winner Common (Selma, John Wick: Chapter 2), Golden Globe winner Clive Owen (Closer, Children of Men) and Ana de Armas (Blade Runner 2049). Three Seconds follows reformed criminal and former special ops soldier Pete Hoffman (Kinnaman) who, in order to free himself from jail and return to his wife (de Armas) and daughter, has been working undercover for crooked FBI handlers (Pike, Common and Owen) to infiltrate the Polish mob’s drug trade in New York. In a final step towards freedom, Hoffman must return to the one […]