Variety is reporting that Haley Bennett (The Girl on the Train) is in talks to join Chris Evans (Captain America: Civil War) in the cast of Red Sea Diving Resort, which is being written and directed by Gideon Raff (Tyrant).
Based on the 1981 rescue of Ethiopian Jews to Israel, the film “picks up in 1977, when Israel’s Mossad spy agency was given an assignment far different from its usual cloak-and-dagger activities. It was ordered by then-Prime Minister Menachem Begin to rescue thousands of Ethiopian Jews in Sudan and deliver them to the Jewish state. No stranger to action in enemy countries, the agency established a covert forward base in a deserted holiday village in Sudan and deployed a handful of operatives to launch and oversee the exodus to the Promised Land, by sea and by air, in the early 1980s.”
Bennett’s recent roles include The Magnificent Seven and Rules Don’t Apply, while she will next be seen in Thank You for Your Service alongside Miles Teller. Evans meanwhile is currently shooting Avengers: Infinity War, and has the Marc Webb-directed Gifted set to open this summer.
Originally published March 21, 2017. Updated April 15, 2018.
