Star Trek star Karl Urban is set to shoot a thriller road movie with Billions star Malin Akerman.
Urban, who is currently filming his hit Amazon Prime series, The Boys, in Toronto, Canada, was supposed to film Cold Providence with Akerman early last year, also in Canada.
Instead, amid the global Covid-19 lockdowns, he hunkered down at home in New Zealand for the year. He left on February 1 to film the third season of The Boys, in which he stars as vigilante Billy Butcher, whose superhero foe is fellow Kiwi star Antony Starr.
In Cold Providence Urban plays Marty, a novelist with writer's block and a mysterious bag of cash, who finds himself on the run with a woman, Gill, (Rampage star Akerman), who has troubling secrets of her own.
Multi-Emmy nominated UK directors and producers Bill Jones and Ben Timlett are on board to direct the "neo-noir" movie. The road movie will be packed with bleak violence and sexual tension and the directors describe the talents of Urban and Akerman as "unbelievable". The movie is officially still in pre-production.
