Frank Langella Joins Neeson, Jones and Kruger in 'Unknown White Male'

Frost/Nixon star Frank Langella will join Liam Neeson, January Jones and Diane Kruger in "Unknown White Male," the Dark Castle thriller, Variety reports.

In the film, Neeson plays a man who awakens from a coma to find somebody else has assumed his identity. Langella, playing the "hero," portrays Cole, Neeson's colleague who tries to help him reclaim his identity.

Filming begins in January in Berlin. Steve Richards, Sarah Meyer and Peter McAleese executive produce, with Joel Silver, Leonard Goldberg and Andrew Rona producing.  Warner Bros. distributes.

Frank Langella is a three-time Tony Award winner, including two for Best Featured Actor in a Play for Edward Albee's Seascape (1975), and Ivan Turgenev's Fortune's Fool (2002), and for Best Leading Actor in a Play for his performance as Richard Nixon in Peter Morgan's Frost/Nixon (2008). Langella was nominated for two other Best Leading Actor in a Play Tonys; first in 1978 for the Edward Gorey-designed revival of Bram Stoker's Dracula and again in 2004 for Stephen Belber's Match. He also notably appeared in Junior. He last appeared in The Box and most recently wrapped a role in the Oliver Stone-directed "Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps" and the Andrew Jarecki-directed "All Good Things."

 

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