Bleecker Street Buys ‘Relay,’ Thriller Starring Riz Ahmed, Lily James and Sam Worthington
variety.comBrent Lang Executive Editor Bleecker Street has acquired U.S. rights to “Relay” following the twisty thriller’s debut at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.
The film was directed by David MacKenzie, who oversaw the Oscar-nominated “Hell or High Water,” and stars Riz Ahmed (“Sound of Metal”), Lily James (“Pam & Tommy”) and Sam Worthington (“Avatar”).
Bleecker Street is planning to release the film in theaters next year.“Relay” puts a new spin on the kind of paranoid loner films like “The Conversation” and “The Parallax View” that populated ’70s cinema.
In it, Ahmed plays a “fixer” who specializes in brokering payoffs between businesses and employees who have secrets (documents, etc.) about corporate malfeasance that could ruin companies.
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