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 New Jersey in March this year. Eran Creevy wrote the screenplay.
The plot centers on Carl Rikker, a seemingly mild-mannered florist, more at home with his many plants than with people. However, he is living a secret double life as a ruthless assassin. When a young girl seeks his help, the florist’s life is thrown into disarray after he gives her shelter at his huge tropical glasshouse. These two people, with only loneliness as their ally, must now learn to work together as the audience is thrown into an action-packed spectacle, with corrupt forces intent on killing the girl moving closer.
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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