Nick Jonas and Laurence Fishburne will star in the action thriller, The Blacksmith.
Jonas whose film credits include Jumanji and Midway and Fishbourne’s include Matrix and John Wick franchises and Misson: Impossible III, were unveiled Tuesday by AGC Studious chairman and CEO Stuard Ford. Ford said that the producers would “soon be announcing an equally outstanding young female actor to play across from Nick.”
The film will be directed by Taken’s Pierre Morel from a screenplay adaptation by Ben Ripley of the 2011 graphic novel from Kickstart Comics by Malik Evans and Richard Sparkman.
Jonas will play Wes Loomis, a go-to weapons expert for the intelligence community who goes on the run after his lab is destroyed and his colleagues are murdered. To stay alive, he uses his skill set and the aid of a young CIA analyst, Noelle Hazlitt and his mentor Mather (Fishburne), a retired blacksmith to help guide Noelle and him on “a journey that keeps this improbable pair one step ahead of their pursuers in a breathless, action-filled thriller that is just the beginning of the globe-trotting adventures of ‘The Blacksmith.'”
Ford described The Blacksmith as “a fresh, highly contemporary new take on the espionage genre.”
