Shubhabrata Dutta
Babak Najafi has found the headliners of his next film! The Cinemaholic can confirm that Kiefer Sutherland and Jean Reno will star in the thriller movie ‘The Florist.’ Principal photography for the project will begin in December 2024. Eran Creevy and Scott Windhauser wrote the screenplay.
The plot centers on Carl Rikker, an introverted horticulturist who loves his day job but holds a dark secret. At night, he moonlights as a ruthless assassin. His identity is threatened when he forms an unlikely friendship with a witness to police corruption.
Sutherland is no stranger to the thriller genre, having played significant roles in films like ‘A Time to Kill’ (Freddie Lee Cobb), ‘Phone Booth’ (The Caller), ‘The Vanishing’ (Jeff Harriman), ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’ (Jim Cross), and ‘The Contractor’ (Rusty Jennings). In television, he appeared as the Housing and Urban Development Secretary-turned-President of the United States, Thomas Kirkman, in the political thriller ‘Designated Survivor’ and counter-terrorist federal agent Jack Bauer in the action thriller series ’24,’ for which he won a Golden Globe and a Primetime Emmy. Sutherland most recently starred in Clint Eastwood’s legal drama ‘Juror #2.’
Reno, a celebrated Spanish-French actor, is a familiar face in English-language films. Even though he is widely known for portraying Léon in Luc Besson’s ‘Léon: The Professional,’ the actor’s important roles also include Vincent in ‘Ronin,’ Philippe Roaché in ‘Godzilla,’ Enzo Molinari in ‘The Big Blue,’ Bezu Fache in ‘The Da Vinci Code,’ and Desroche in ‘Da 5 Bloods.’ He played Reinaldo Gómez de la Cortina in the Netflix series ‘Who Killed Sara?’ as well. Reno’s latest outing was as Gilbert Vassier in Netflix’s French fantasy adventure movie ‘Family Pack.’
Babak Najafi has a handful of action movies to his name, including the Gerard Butler-starrer ‘London Has Fallen,’ which serves as a sequel to Antoine Fuqua’s ‘Olympus Has Fallen.’ His other prominent projects are the Taraji P. Henson-starrer ‘Proud Mary’ and the Joel Kinnaman-led ‘Easy Money II: Hard to Kill.’ Najafi also directed multiple episodes of the Cinemax action drama ‘Banshee,’ starring Antony Starr.
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