Helen Mirren and Pete Postlethwaite have signed on to join the cast of “Brighton Rock”, Rowan Joffe’s upcoming adaptation of the 1939 Graham Greene novel.
Sam Riley and Andrea Riseborough are already set to star in the film, a crime story that features a waitress named Rose (Riseborough) blackmailing a gangster named Pinky (Riley) over a gangland revenge killing.
Mirren and Postlethwaite will play Ida and Phil Cokery, a couple who get involved in exposing Pinkie and trying to save Rose when she gets in over her head.
Filming is expected to start October 18th in England.
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By Costa Koutsoutis (Source: The Hollywood Reporter)