The young Aussie has been cast alongside Julianne Moore and Chloe Moretz in the horror remake
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.
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.
Principal photography began yesterday on Matchbox Pictures' new Australian feature film Cut Snake - a tense, psychologically-driven crime thriller in which one man discovers his biggest enemy to putting the past behind him is himself.
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.
Two NIDA graduates and close friends are joining forces to create a new collective partnership, Rockpool Films.
The first image from the film, which just finished shooting in Adelaide, has been released.
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.