Moviehole reports that Robert De Niro, Dominic Purcell (“Prison Break”), Yvonne Strahovski (“Chuck”), Aden Young (“The Starter Wife”), Ben Mendelsohn (Animal Kingdom), Lachy Hulme (“Macbeth”) and Firass Dirani (“Underbelly: The Golden Mile”) have joined Jason Statham and Clive Owen in The Killer Elite, to be directed by Gary McKendry.
Statham will star in the action thriller based on Ranulph Fiennes’ best-seller “The Feathermen.” Based on real events, the story follows a group of former British special forces members who are being hunted by assassins. Statham will play a former Navy Seal who is forced out of retirement to save his closest friend.
The project is currently filming in Melbourne.