Moon and Source Code director Duncan Jones has been caught up for the last couple of years making Warcraft: The Beginning, but he’s now going back to a movie he was planning before the fantasy filme took over, Mute.
Now he’s beginning to fill the cast, as Variety reports that Paul Rudd & Alexander Skarsgard have signed on to star in the sci-fi thriller.
In the movie, ‘Skarsgard will portray a mute bartender in Berlin, 40 years in the future in what has become a roiling city of immigrants, where East crashes against West. His character will be looking for a woman who has disappeared and when his search takes him deep into the citys underbelly, an odd pair of American surgeons (led by Rudds character) seem to be the only recurring clue.’
Jones comments, “Ive been working towards making Mute for 12 years now. I cannot tell you how thrilled I am that were finally going to shoot this utterly unique film. The fact that I get to make it with Alexander Skarsgard and Paul Rudd makes it all the more exciting!
Working from a script by Jones and Mike Johnson, the film will start shooting next March.