Real-life story Red Sea Diving Resort is starting to lock in its key cast, with Chris Evans and Haley Bennett landing the lead roles last month. Michael K. Williams is set to join them.
Resort, which was originally developed by Homeland's Gideon Raff from Alice LaPlante's book Turn Of Mind, has gone by several titles on its journey to the screen, as was once known as Operation Brothers and then Operation Resort. Raff is still aboard to direct his script, which will chronicle the evacuation of Jewish Ethiopian Civil War refugees from Sudan to Israel in the late 1970s and early '80s. On the orders of then-Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Mossad set up a secret base in a deserted Sudanese holiday camp, and orchestrated the mass extraction by sea and air. Evans is Ari Kidron, a charming Israeli agent who assembles a team to help refugees on the ground.
Variety's report doesn't mention what role Williams has taken, but it's very different from his current job, part of the cast of the still-untitled Han Solo Star Wars spin-off. Red Sea Diving Resort should be shooting this summer.