Paul Mescal to Headline Kevin Macdonald’s ‘A Spy By Nature’

Paul Mescal (“Aftersun,” ‘Regular Folks’) will lead trendy espionage thriller “A Spy By Nature,” to be directed by Oscar and BAFTA winner Kevin Macdonald (“The Mauritian”).

HanWay Movies is launching worldwide gross sales on the upcoming American Movie Market. CAA is co-representing home rights.

The movie is an adaptation of the primary novel in Charles Cumming’s bestselling Alec Milius spy sequence, tailored by BAFTA winner John Hodge (“Trainspotting”) and Joseph Charlton (“Trade”). It would comply with Milius, a disillusioned twenty-something whose reward for deception catches the attention of MI6. Caught up within the thrusts of a geopolitical battle on commodities involving the British and the People, at dwelling he struggles to protect his relationship along with his girlfriend and construct a future collectively. As his net of lies grows, Milius is compelled to confront his personal nature – whether or not he generally is a good man in addition to spy.

The movie is produced by Chris Clark (“All of the Cash within the World”) and Quentin Curtis (“Legend”). Serving as govt producers, HanWay Movies and Ingenious Media developed the venture along with the producers with improvement funding from the British Movie Institute.

Macdonald stated: “I’ve wished to make ‘A Spy By Nature’ for a few years – and once I met Paul Mescal, along with his beguiling combination of intelligence, talent and youth, I knew I’d discovered the proper star. It is a very trendy spy story – attractive, harmful, morally ambivalent – and solely an actor of Paul’s expertise might pull it off.”

Clark and Curtis stated: “We’re thrilled to be bringing this thrilling and well timed thriller to the display screen with Kevin Macdonald, whose extraordinary observe document of fascinating and thought-provoking cinema makes him the perfect director for it. The seek for the proper actor to play Alec Milius has been an extended one. However as quickly as we noticed Paul Mescal’s exceptional breakthrough performances we knew we had discovered a performer with the intelligence, depth and charisma to interpret this compellingly multifaceted function.”

HanWay Movies CEO Gabrielle Stewart added: “Paul Mescal feels just like the actor of the second, so to have him staff up with Kevin Macdonald to convey to the display screen the compelling origins story of well-liked younger spy Alec Milius is extraordinarily thrilling. We love the contemporary setting of millennial up to date London and the modernity of the characters and their relationships. I really feel assured we are going to all wish to revisit this younger spy in his subsequent journey with what might be the start of an thrilling new franchise.”