Mark Sturdy joins The Silent Hour | Leisure

Mark Sturdy has joined the forged of ‘The Silent Hour’.

The 59-year-old star will characteristic alongside Joel Kinnaman within the motion thriller that’s being directed by Brad Anderson.

The crime drama will likely be set in Boston and can see Kinnaman star as a police detective who suffers a office accident that leaves him with impaired listening to.

16 months later – as an interpreter for the police division – he and his associate (Sturdy) battle a workforce of corrupt officers making an attempt to get rid of a deaf homicide witness in an condominium constructing.

The script has been written by Dan Corridor and manufacturing is because of start in early 2023.

Stuart Ford’s ACG Studios are to finance and produce the movie with Eric Paquette’s Meridan Footage.

Sturdy beforehand revealed that he missed out on the prospect to play a James Bond villain after a boozy evening with future 007 Daniel Craig – who he starred alongside within the TV collection ‘Our Associates within the North’.

The ‘Shazam!’ star recalled: “I used to be up for a villain in one of many Pierce Brosnan movies – I am unable to bear in mind which – and I had learnt my traces.

“And I used to be fairly cocky about that. As a result of once I began out auditioning, you did not be taught your traces, you simply learn them with the director.

“However the evening earlier than, I went out for a drink with Danny – this was method earlier than he was Bond. And sadly, I had a bit an excessive amount of to drink.”

Mark appeared alongside George Clooney within the 2005 movie ‘Syriana’ and defined that he was frightened of unleashing violence on the Hollywood star, who ended up hurting his again within the scene.

He stated: “There was an awesome accountability connected to it and he really did his again in when he selected to fall into shot nonetheless tied to the chair.

“I met him years later, considering I might been accountable, however he absolved me.”