Olivia Cooke (House of the Dragon) and Alden Ehrenreich (Oppenheimer) have joined Anton Corbijn’s thriller Switzerland, alongside Helen Mirren, who plays the role of American crime novelist Patricia Highsmith. Filming is currently underway in Rome.
The film is based on the play Switzerland by Joanna Murray-Smith, who also wrote the screenplay. It takes inspiration from Highsmith’s Tom Ripley novels. Switzerland marks Corbijn’s first feature film in over nine years.
Switzerland follows Mirren—playing the aging “queen of thrillers”—fading away in Switzerland, where a young literary agent named Edward (Ehrenreich) tries to coax her out of retirement to pen one last installment of her popular Ripley series. It soon becomes clear that the charming agent is on a more sinister mission. As they begin to collaborate on a new Ripley plot, the world they live in—and the one they are constructing—become blurred. Cooke’s role in the film is not yet known.
According to a Variety report, the film will move from Rome to Italy’s Alpine Alto Adige-South Tyrol region in mid-February, before continuing to Switzerland and London for filming.
The film is produced by Gabrielle Tana (Philomena), Troy Lum, and Andrew Mason for Brouhaha Entertainment; Jim Robison and Kurt Martin for Lunar Pictures; Karl Spoerri for Switzerland’s Zurich Avenue; and Andrea Occhipinti for Italy’s Lucky Red. FilmNation Entertainment is handling international sales. The Italian line producer is Enrico Ballarin (Cyrano).
Switzerland‘s release date has not yet been revealed.
Source: Variety
