Rowan Joffé: Last News

Tilda Swinton is joiningColin Farrell in Edward Berger and Netflix‘s The Ballad of a Small Player, we can reveal.

EXCLUSIVE: Christopher Reich’s Simon Riske book series is headed to the screen as Netflix has re-teamed with Edward Berger, the Oscar-winning director, co-writer and producer of the streamer’s All Quiet on the Western Front, on a drama series adaptation, sources tell Deadline. Berger is set to direct the international spy thriller, in early development at Netflix UK, which is being written by Rowan Joffe (Tin Star, The Informer). The first season will focus on the first book in the series, The Take, I hear. Netflix declined comment.

Former Bond Girl Famke Janssen is currently hard at work on the London set of Netflix contemporary psychological thriller Locked In.The Dutch 58-year-old is playing a 'brittle, damaged mother' called Katherine, who doesn't get along with her new unhappy daughter-in-law Lina - according to Deadline.Sandition starlet Rose Williams plays Lina, who embarks on an 'affair that sets her onto a journey of secrecy, betrayal and murder - and a plot to seemingly destroy her.' New gig! Former Bond Girl Famke Janssen is currently hard at work on the London set of Netflix contemporary psychological thriller Locked In (pictured January 13) Logline: The Dutch 58-year-old is playing a 'brittle, damaged mother' called Katherine, who doesn't get along with her new unhappy daughter-in-law LinaLocked In is the second feature film helmed by director Nour Wazzi (Murder Manual), and the script was written by Rowan Joffé (Tin Star).On October 28, the Lebanese filmmaker wrote on Instagram that filming should run through the end of January on the project, which features a predominantly female and diverse crew.Locked In will also feature Violent Night's Alex Hassell, Monarch's Anna Friel, and Animal Kingdom's Finn Cole.

EXCLUSIVE: Famke Janssen (X-Men franchise) and Rose Williams (Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris) will topline Locked In, a contemporary psychological thriller from Netflix, which is currently in production in London and the UK. Others in the cast include Alex Hassell (Violent Night), Finn Cole (Animal Kingdom) and Anna Friel (Monarch).