Adam Driver Joins 65 From Producer Sam Raimi

Deadline reports that Adam Driver has signed on to "65," a new film from directors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods. Sam Raimi produces.

The plot is currently being kept under wraps, but the film has just restarted production following COVID-19 restrictions.

Beck and Woods are best known for writing "A Quiet Place." They wrote an episode of Raimi's recent Quibi show "50 States of Fright."

Adam Driver can be seen in Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman. He was recently seen as Kylo Ren in the most recent "Star Wars" trilogy, as well as Noah Baumbach's "Marriage Story."

Driver won the Volpi Cup Award for Best Actor for Hungry Hearts, which premiered at the 2014 Venice Film Festival. Other recent credits include Martin Scorsese's Silence, Jim Jarmusch's Paterson, Jeff Nichols' Midnight Special, and J.J. Abrams' Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

His other film credits include While We're Young, This Is Where I Leave You, Tracks, Inside Llewyn Davis, Lincoln, Frances Ha, and J. Edgar. Driver also starred on HBO's critically acclaimed series "Girls." His performance in "Girls" garnered him three Emmy nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.

His Broadway credits include Man and Boy (dir. Maria Aitken) opposite Frank Langella, as well as Mrs. Warren's Profession (dir. Doug Hughes) opposite Cherry Jones. Off-Broadway, he starred in John Osborne's Look Back in Anger (dir. Sam Gold), which earned him the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actor. Prior to that, he took the stage as Louis Ironson in The Signature's revival of Tony Kushner's Angels in America (dir. Michael Greif). In 2008, Driver founded Arts in the Armed Forces, a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing live stage performance to active duty and veteran members of the U.S. Armed Forces and their families. Driver is a Juilliard graduate and is a former Marine who was with 1/1 Weapons Company at Camp Pendleton, CA.

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