Gere to play agent in thriller
2005-08-04 11:21
Los Angeles - Movie heart-throb Richard Gere has signed on to play a US government agent in a new independent thriller film to be made by Hong Kong director Andrew Lau, the Hollywood Reporter said on Wednesday.
The film The Flock, is a $35m (about R224m) epic that tells the story of an agent who tries to track down a missing girl as he trains his new female replacement.
Lau is best known for directing the Hong Kong movie Infernal Affairs by Lau, also known as Lau Wai-Keung.
American Gigolo and An Officer and a Gentleman star Gere is currently shooting The Hoax, in which he plays author Clifford Irving, who sold a bogus biography of Howard Hughes in the 1970s and touched off a media frenzy.
- AFP