Rogue One meets the sequel trilogy as Felicity Jones is set to star alongside John Boyega in the IRA thriller Borderland, also starring Jack Reynor (Midsommar) and Jodie Turner-Smith (Queen & Slim).
The film will follow an Irish paramilitary, Michael (Reynor), who witnesses the shooting of his pregnant wife at the hands of an SAS sergeant named Tempest (Boyega) when a border ambush goes wrong. When Tempest is sent back to London to lead a covert counter-terrorist operation, Michael joins a ruthless active service unit (ASU) wreaking havoc in the capital. For Michael, the mission is personal – to hunt down Tempest – and he’ll stop at nothing to avenge his wife’s death.
UK sales firm Rocket Science is selling and financing the film, which heralds from director duo the Guard Brothers (The Uninvited). Endeavour Content is co-repping domestic rights.
Chris Coen (Funny Games), Rebecca Brown, Felicity Jones’s Piecrust Productions and Rocket Science will produce the film, with Jones as executive producer. The plan is for film to shoot on location in the UK in early 2021.
The Guard Brothers co-wrote the screenplay with BAFTA-nominee Ronan Bennett (Public Enemies), which was inspired by the book The Road To Balcombe Street by Steven S. Moysey. Erik Wilson (Paddington 2) will be director of photography.
