18-05-2025
Luke Evans Joins Noomi Rapace in Thriller ‘Traction'
Luke Evans and Noomi Rapace are reteaming for the action thriller Traction, from writer and director Lorraine Darrow.
Evans and Rapace earlier starred in the 2019 film Angel of Mine. Evans has movie credits that include Beauty and the Beast, Nine Perfect Strangers, Criminal and Weekend in Taipei. Rapace is best known for Close, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.
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The character-driven Traction will see Rapace play Kate, a former U.S. soldier leading a humanitarian mission in war-torn Chechnya. The assignment takes a perilous turn and Kate is forced to take on a cynical American war photographer, played by Evans, and a schoolteacher and her injured student as the group must evade both Russian forces and guerrilla fighters.
Production on Traction will start in Spain in August. WestEnd Films is handling worldwide sales and shopping the film in Cannes. Traction is produced by CrossDay Productions' Janette Day, Dennis Davidson via his Elizabeth Bay Production banner and Simon Moseley.
In Kim Farrant's psychological thriller Angel of Mine, Rapace played an emotionally troubled woman who becomes convinced that a neighbor's young daughter is actually her own child she thought was dead. She becomes involved in a bitter custody battle with her ex-husband (Luke Evans). The psychological thriller was a remake of the 2008 French film L'empreinte de L'Ange.
Evans is represented by Anonymous Content, United Agents and CAA. Rapace is represented by Gersh, Tapestry and Narrative. Her deal was negotiated by Kurt Selling at Behind The Scene.
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