Now that the film has locked down at least one of its male leads in Scott Eastwood, the team behind Overdrive have turned their attention to a crucial female role. They’ve hired Knock Knock’s Ana de Armas for the part{
Having menaced Keanu Reeves in the Eli Roth thriller that arrived in the UK a couple of months ago, de Armas will now be part of the long-gestating vehicular thriller. The script, written by Wanted’s Michael Brandt and Derek Haas, focuses on two American brothers who decide to push their car-thief career into top gear by heading to France. But they end up running afoul of a much more dangerous criminal. How de Armas’ character will fit in has yet to be announced, though we could see her plotting as the criminal king pin if the film decides to go an interesting way. Eastwood will be one of the brothers, with Antonio Negret looking to start the cameras and the car wheels rolling in Marseilles from November until February.
Off the back of her devious role in Knock Knock, de Armas has scored at least one other part – she’ll share the screen with Miles Teller and Jonah Hill in Arms And The Dudes, which lands here on April 8 next year.