Alex Russell will join Jack O'Connell and Domhnall Gleeson in Unbroken, the Angelina-Jolie directed movie which starts shooting in Sydney on October 21.
The young Aussie has been cast alongside Julianne Moore and Chloe Moretz in the horror remake
The film, written by David O'Donnell, will tell the story of an ex-con trying to get his life together who is reluctantly drawn into a dangerous world by his pro-surfer brother.
Entering the final week of shooting crime thriller Cut Snake, Alex Russell is tired and emotionally drained but happy to be working with Sullivan Stapleton, Jessica De Gouw and director Tony Ayres.
Actor Alex Russell became mates with writer-director Luke Shanahan after he graduated from NIDA in 2009 and they soon decided they wanted to make a film together.
'Picture Wheel' is the latest project from Five Lip films, made up of drama school grads Russell, David O'Donnell, Ande Cunningham, James Elliot and Sarah-Jane McAllan.
Playing a rebel cop in the first season of the CBS series 'S.W.A.T.', Alex Russell’s character Jim Street was fiercely loyal to his mother Karen who was in jail for the manslaughter of her abusive husband.
Sullivan Stapleton and Alex Russell will play ex-cons in Cut Snake, Matchbox Pictures' crime thriller directed by Tony Ayres, which shoots in Melbourne in late October.