Hot projects on Screenbase this week include German-Canadian co-production In The Lost Lands, twin brothers Mohammed Abou Nasser and Ahmad Abou Nasser’sDégradé, spy-thriller Damascus Cover and documentary Tomorrow.
Spy thriller Damascus Cover
Big Book Media produces this new feature based on a novel by Howard Kaplan. The film stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Olivia Thirlby, John Hurt, Igal Naor and Jurgen Prochnow, while Daniel Berk directs.
Production started this week in Morocco. Carnaby International will handle international sales. Principal photography is scheduled to take place in Casablanca from February 5 to March 23. Local Moroccan production company H Films backed the project.
The plot takes places in the late 1980s and focuses on a veteran spy sent undercover in Syria to smuggle a chemical weapons scientist and his family out of Damascus.
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