Deadline.com: Christopher Plummer Joins ‘The Forger,’ Ben McKenzie To Lead ‘The Swimmer,’ ‘Love Is Strange’ Adds Darren Burrows

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Christopher Plummer Joins 'The Forger,' Ben McKenzie To Lead 'The Swimmer,' 'Love Is Strange' Adds Darren Burrows Sep 7th 2013, 22:55, by THE DEADLINE TEAM Code Entertainment‘s The Forger has added Oscar winner Christopher Plummer to its cast. Plummer joins John Travolta and Tye Sheridan (Mud) in the heist pic to be helmed by Philip Martin (BBC’s Wallander). Travolta plays a former art prodigy and second generation petty thief who buys his way out of prison to spend time with his ailing son. To do so he must team up with his father (Plummer) for one last job to pay back the syndicate that arranged his release. Code Entertainment's Al Corley, Eugene Musso, and Bart Rosenblatt and Lisa Wilson and Myles Nestel of The Solution Entertainment Group are producing along with Rob Carliner. Anson Downes and Linda Favila are co-exec producing. Filming begins in Boston in October. The Solution is selling international rights at Toronto; WME Global and ICM are repping domestic sales. Plummer is repped by ICM and The Pitt Group. Southland‘s Ben McKenzie is set to star in The Swimmer, about an American extreme swimmer who sets out to conquer one of Norway’s wildest rivers and in doing so must confront his inner demons. BiFrost Pictures is financing and will produce the pic written by Bard Ivar Engelsas and directed by Richard L. Fox. The Swimmer is backed by the U.S.-Norway Film Development Project as well as the regional film funds of Norway and will also star Norwegian thesps Agnes Kittelsen and Kristoffer Joner. BiFrost’s Daniel Wagner is producing with Lisa G. Black of Garnet Girl, LLC and Brandi Savitt of Senza Pictures along with Sweet Films AS. Filming is set to begin in Norway in June 2014. McKenzie is repped by CAA and Management 360. Ira Sachs‘ Love Is Strange has added Darren Burrows to its production underway in NYC. Burrows collaborated with Sachs on the filmmaker’s Forty Shades Of Blue and joins Alfred Molina, John Lithgow, Marisa Tomei, and Tracy Letts in the new drama as Tomei’s husband. Molina and Lithgow topline the project, about a recently married gay couple forced to live separately with friends and family when one loses his job. Burrows is repped by Shelter Entertainment.

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