Last year, it was announced that Watchmen’s Malin Akerman would be joining the cast of CIA thriller The Numbers Station. Things have been very quiet since, but now the film has scooped the services of John Cusack to co-star.
The Candidate’s Kasper Barfoed is directing the film, which finds Cusack as a disgraced black-ops agent shuffled off to a dead-end assignment in the Nevada desert. His job? Protect a code breaker (Akerman) working at an isolated CIA broadcast station when she’s targeted by unknown assailants.
Given that his name is nowhere near it now (and the slightly important fact that Cusack has taken over his role), it would appear that Ethan Hawke, who had been planning to produce and star, is no longer involved. Perhaps he got bored waiting for it all to come together.
The rights to the movie are being sold at the American Film Market next month, which should lock in the budget. But either way, it’ll also start shooting shortly after that.
Cusack, meanwhile, will next crop up in** The Raven** and The Paperboy, and he’s currently filming crime thriller The Frozen Ground with Nic Cage.