Bates Motel and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl star Olivia Cooke has signed on to play tennis star turned spy Alice Marble in the upcoming World War II drama Courting Danger, THR is reporting.
The film is based upon Dale Leatherman’s book Courting Danger: My Adventures in World Class Tennis, Golden Age Hollywood, and High Stakes Spying and follows three-time tennis world champion Marble, who “defied the wishes of her longtime coach and left the sport in order to become an Allied spy, gathering intel on the Nazis that proved instrumental in the Nuremberg trials.”
Courting Danger has been written by Derek Weissbein (Layla) and is being produced by Maven Pictures, whose upcoming projects include Wildling with Bel Powley and Liv Tyler, and L.A. Riots drama Kings, which stars Halle Berry and Daniel Craig.
Cooke will next be seen in the thriller Thoroughbred alongside Anya Taylor-Joy and Anton Yelchin, while she is also part of the cast of Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One adaptation.
Originally published April 3, 2017. Updated April 15, 2018.
