Director Justin Chadwick (The Other Boleyn Girl, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom) has assembled a stellar cast for his next film Official Secrets, with Natalie Dormer, Harrison Ford, Anthony Hopkins, Paul Bettany and Martin Freeman all signing on to appear in the project.
Official Secrets is based on the book The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War: Katherine Gun and the Secret Plot to Sanction the Iraq Invasion, and sees Dormer as a British intelligence officer who reveals a secret illegal NSA spy operation against the UN Security Council designed to ensure passage of a resolution for war. Her arrest following the leak makes headlines and the reporter’s efforts to gain the evidence to free her unearths a shocking plot that puts both of their lives in jeopardy.
Bettany will play a newspaper reporter, with Freeman as the paper’s foreign affairs editor, Hopkins as a retired Army general, and Ford a CIA agent.
Chadwick’s latest film Tulip Fever, starring Christoph Waltz and Alicia Vikander, is set for release later this year.
Via Variety
Originally published January 31, 2016. Updated April 15, 2018.
