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Noomi Rapace to Star in Amazon MGM Studios & Thunder Road’s “The Kellys”

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Noomi Rapace has landed her next role.

The 46-year-old half-Spanish actress has joined Amazon MGM Studios and Thunder Road’s The Kellys, joining previously announced cast members Arnold Schwarzenegger, Liam Hemsworth, Kelsey Asbille, Abby Elliot and Geena Davis.

Noomi RapaceRapace is among a roster of new cast additions that includes Ron Funches, Michael Biehn, Roland Møller, Laz Alonso, Basil Eidenbenz,and Dan Fogler.

Brad Peyton is directing the film, off Tze Chun’s screenplay.

The film follows Jack Kelly, a disgraced New York City cop whose wife, Molly, is taken hostage by terrorists inside an old armory building. To save her, he’ll have to join forces with the people he fears most: his family.

Amazon MGM landed global distribution for the film and will stream it in more than 240 countries on Prime Video.

Rapace rose to acclaim with her turn as Lisbeth Salander in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, earning a Guldbagge Award, a Jupiter Award and BAFTA and European Film Award nominations.

Her feature credits include Ridley Scott’s Alien prequel Prometheus, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Lamb and TV series Jack Ryan, Constellation and Django. 

She has received multiple Best Actress honors across Europe, including for Beyond and Babycall, and won Denmark’s Bodil and Robert Awards for Daisy Diamond.

Alonso stars in Prime Video’s The Boys.

Later this year, Alonso stars in the Netflix romantic drama Don’t Ever Wonder, inspired by Maxwell’s iconic album Urban Hang Suite.

His additional film credits include James Cameron’s Avatar, Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit, his NAACP Image Award–winning performance in Jumping the Broom, Guy Ritchie’s Fountain of Youth and Fast & Furious. 

JD Pardo to Appear on Amazon’s Conspiracy-Thriller Series “The Terminal List”

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JD Pardo is officially on the list…

The 40-year-old Salvadoran and Argentinian-American actor will star alongside Chris Pratt in Amazon’s conspiracy-thriller series The Terminal List, based on Jack Carr’s bestselling novel, in a key recurring role.

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Constance Wu, Riley Keough, Taylor Kitsch and Jeanne Tripplehorn also star in the series, which Pratt executive produces along with Antoine Fuqua, who directs, and writer David DiGilio.

The Terminal List is a co-production from Amazon Studios and Civic Center Media in association with MRC Television.

Written by DiGilio, The Terminal List follows James Reece (Pratt) after his entire platoon of Navy SEALs is ambushed during a high-stakes covert mission. Reece returns home to his family with conflicting memories of the event and questions about his culpability. However, as new evidence comes to light, Reece discovers dark forces working against him, endangering not only his life but the lives of those he loves.

Pardo will play Tony Liddel, one of the youngest leaders of an FBI Task Force, he leads his team with veracity and stalwart determination. He’s hell-bent on finding his fugitive and is merciless when it comes to bringing justice to bear. But while his work is simple, his home-life is complicated, and his family is what motivates him to make the world a better, safer place.

Pardo currently stars as EZ Reyes in FX’s Mayans M.C., which was recently picked up for a fourth season ahead of its third season finale.

He’ll next be seen in Thunder Road and 30West’s thriller Violence of Action alongside Chris Pine, Ben Foster and Gillian Jacobs.

Rapace to Star Opposite Idris Elba and Sam Worthington in “Alive Alone”

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Noomi Rapace won’t be alive alone for long…

The 34-year-old half-Spanish actress, who was originally announced as the leading lady in Alive Alone at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, has two new co-stars.

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Rapace was originally set to star opposite Matthias Schoenaerts in the Thunder Road-produced drama. But Schoenaerts had to pull out of the project for personal reasons.

But Rapace won’t be co-starless for long…

Idris Elba and Sam Worthington have just joined the cast, with filming expected to start this March.

The New York-set drama marks the feature helming debut of Khurram Longi, who will direct the project from his own script.

Elba stars as an ex-detainee of Guantanamo Bay working as a taxi driver, and Rapace plays a prostitute on the run from a feared crime boss (Worthington). When their worlds collide, they unexpectedly find salvation in one another.

Elba and Rapace previously co-starred together in the sort-of prequel to Ridley Scott‘s Alien, Prometheus.

Rapace, who rose to acclaim after starring in the original The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo film and its sequels in the Millennium trilogy, most recently starred in Brian De Palma’s erotic thriller Passion.