Highland Film Group announced that Academy Award® winner Nicolas Cage (Adaptation, Leaving Las Vegas, Joe) and Jack Huston (American Hustle, “Boardwalk Empire”) will star in Alex & Ben Brewer’s new upcoming crime thriller, THE TRUST.The film is co-written by Ben Brewer and Adam Hirsch, with Molly Hassell and Braxton Pope producing. Mike Nilon will executive produce. THE TRUST is a Hassell Free Production in association with Electric Shadow Fund who is providing finance. Highland Film Group’s (HFG) Arianne Fraser and Delphine Perrier are executive producing and will be handling worldwide sales beginning at Cannes.
THE TRUST centers on two evil cops who discover a strangely hidden and guarded safe filled with mysterious contents. Their lust for it unexpectedly thrusts them into a deadly well of corruption leaving them fighting for their lives and unsure of who to trust.
HFG’s slate also includes: Kevin Connolly’s THE WRIGHT GIRLS starring Jessica Alba, from Atlas Independent, the affiliate company of Charles Roven’s Atlas Entertainment; the Brett Ratner produced teen-action comedy BARELY LETHAL starring Hailee Steinfeld, Samuel L. Jackson and Jessica Alba; and YOUR RIGHT MIND starring Katherine Heigl and Ben Barnes.
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