Fresh from his success in dystopian thriller The Hunger Games, actor Liam Hemsworth has signed on to star in fellow Australian Robert Luketic’s corporate espionage thriller Paranoia.
The adaptation of Joseph Finder’s novel of the same name will see Hemsworth playing Adam Cassidy, a low-level employee at a high-tech corporation. When he is caught committing a crime, Corporate Security gives him the choice between jail and spying on a rival company.
The film is being made for sales and distribution company ICM Global and will shoot in New York and Mumbai. It is understood that Gary Oldman and Harrison Ford are also in advanced negotiations to star in the picture. Shooting is scheduled to commence later this year.
In August last year, it was announced that the director, whose past work includes Legally Blonde and 21, would helm Brilliant, a heist film with Hopscotch Features involved. It was described at the time as a cross between a James Bond film and My Fair Lady, but set in 2012.
Eric Bana was attached to play the lead but pulled out due to a scheduling clash and was replaced by Gerard Butler. Luketic told the Daily Telegraph that he was unsure when or where the film would go into production.