With Cannes gearing up to start this week (today, in fact), movies that are hoping to finding funding/distribution there are already being announced. One of those is Sleight of Hand, which the producers have revealed will star Kiefer Sutherland, Gérard Depardieu, Til Schweiger, Thomas Jane, Johnny Hallyday, Jon Lovitz and Eric Cantona. Brad Mirman will direct the action comedy, which should shoot from the end of July through mid-September in Paris, according to Variety.
In Sleight of Hand, also starring French actors Jean-Luc Couchard, Nora Arnezeder and Patrice Cols, the international cast plays a crew of small time crooks in Paris, who inadvertently end up possessing a rare gold coin belonging to a notorious French gangster. The leader of the crew calls his uncle (Depardieu), a retired criminal, to help them raise the money to repay the gangster. The series of mix-ups and double crosses culminate as the gangs are pitted face to face, chasing through Paris.
“I am honored to be a part of this film, and to be able to work with such an amazing cast, who not only exude talent but bring passion, humor and excitement on and off the screen, ” says director Mirman, whose past films include Resurrection, Crime Spree and Body of Evidence and recently The Confessor internet series with Kiefer Sutherland.