Emile Hirsch (As soon as Upon a Time… In Hollywood, Into the Wild) has signed on to star alongside actor-director Danny A. Abeckaser within the upcoming movie challenge The Engineer. The 2 most just lately labored collectively on the crime drama The Gemini Lounge.
The Engineer is predicated on the true story of Yahya Ayyash, “the mastermind bombmaker who led a military of suicidal troopers in Israel through the mid ’90s.” The film will observe “the most important manhunt within the historical past of Israel to seek out him. Hirsch will play Etan, the pinnacle agent on the lookout for ‘The Engineer,’ with Abeckaser as his superior agent, Yakov.”
Abeckaser will direct the film from a script written by Kosta Kondilopoulos. It additionally stars Angel Bonanni and Omer Hazan.
Abeckaser shared in a press release: “Particularly being Israeli, I’m intrigued by the worldwide manhunt and again story of ‘The Engineer’ and have been wanting to inform this story for years. I’m thrilled to shoot it with Emile once more, he’s an unimaginable main actor, and set in Israel the place all of it occurred. I’m additionally tremendous excited to be working with our DP Barry Markowitz (Slingblade, Loopy Coronary heart) as properly. We’re placing collectively an unimaginable staff and forged.”
Supply: Deadline
