Last week Jessica Chastain spoke passionately about taking her idea for spy-thriller 355 to sell at the Cannes Film Festival. Now Deadline is reporting that the film has been bought by Universal Pictures for a whopping $20 million.
Simon Kinberg (X-Men: Dark Phoenix) is set to direct 355, “a large-scale espionage film” that will feature Jessica Chastain (Molly’s Game), Marion Cotillard (Allied), Penelope Cruz (Murder on the Orient Express), Fan Bingbing (X-Men: Days of Future Past) and Lupita Nyong’o (Black Panther).
The star-studded female ensemble has been written by Theresa Rebeck (Catwoman,Gossip), from an idea by Chastain that she pitched to Kinberg while shooting X-Men: Dark Phoenix, and is described as “a grounded, edgy action thriller” in the style of James Bond, Mission: Impossible and the Bourne films.
Deadline reveals that the actresses will play a quintet of accomplished secret agents from countries around the world, who have to overcome suspicions and political differences to form a spy sisterhood to thwart a common enemy.
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