Michael Douglas and Orlando Bloom Join Michael Apted’s UNLOCKED

Academy-Award Winner Michael Douglas and Orlando Bloom Join Star Noomi Rapace in Michael Apted’s UNLOCKED

Los Angeles/Toronto, September 7, 2014 – Alex Walton and Ken Kao’s BLOOM will handle international sales on UNLOCKED directed by Michael Apted (The World Is Not Enough, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader) and based on a screenplay by Peter O’Brien. Academy Award® Winner Michael Douglas (Ant-Man, The Reach, Behind the Candelabra, Wall Street) and Orlando Bloom (The Hobbit franchise; the Lord of the Rings franchise; the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise) will join star Noomi Rapace (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Child 44, Prometheus) in the new thriller, with Lorenzo DiBonaventura (Transformers: Age of Extinction, Salt, Red, G.I. Joe: Retaliation) producing alongside Georgina Townsley and Erik Howsam. Silver Reel (Under The Skin, The Railway Man, The Host) will finance and produce alongside DiBonaventura.  BLOOM is introducing the film to buyers at the Toronto International Film Festival.

With principal photography beginning on November 3, UNLOCKED tells the story of a CIA interrogator (Rapace) who unwittingly provides information to terrorists and then must race against the clock to stop a biological warfare attack on London.

“I am delighted to introduce this fresh, smart European thriller to buyers in Toronto,” said BLOOM’s Alex Walton.  “With three major studio movies in production, Noomi Rapace is becoming one of the hottest female international stars working today.  When you add Michael Apted, Michael Douglas and Orlando Bloom — you have a commercial package that I am confident will draw strong interest.”

Michael Douglas is represented by UTA.  Orlando Bloom is represented by CAA and Brillstein Entertainment Partners. Noomi Raprace is represented by CAA and Magnolia Entertainment.  Michael Apted is represented by CAA and the Gotham Group.

Last week, BLOOM boarded director Shane Black’s detective thriller THE NICE GUYS starring Academy Award® Winner Russell Crowe and Academy Award® Nominee Ryan Gosling, which the company introduced to buyers at the Toronto International Film Festival.  They are currently in production on two-time Academy Award® Nominee Gus Van Sant’s The Sea of Trees starring Academy Award® Winner Matthew McConaughey and Academy Award® Nominees Ken Watanabe and Naomi Watts.