Emily Blunt to headline criminal-conspiracy movie Pain Hustlers

Hollywood star Emily Blunt will play the lead function in Pain Hustlers, a criminal-conspiracy movie to be directed by David Yates. Yates, recognized for guiding 4 movies within the Harry Potter collection and the primary three movies of its prequel collection Fantastic Beasts, will helm the brand new film, which has a script by author Wells Tower.

Pain Hustlers is alleged to be in the identical vein as Adam McKay’s The Big Short, David O Russell’s American Hustle and Martin Scorsese-directed The Wolf of Wall Street.

It is described as a hilarious, dramatic and wild journey to the corrupt coronary heart of the American dream.

“Dreaming of a better life for her and her young daughter, Liza Drake (Blunt), a high-school dropout, lands a job with a failing pharmaceutical start-up in a yellowing strip mall in Central Florida. Liza’s charm, guts and drive catapult the company and her into the high life, where she soon finds herself at the center of a criminal conspiracy with deadly consequences,” the official plotline learn.

The movie, which is able to begin manufacturing in August this yr, is produced by Lawrence Grey by way of his Grey Matter Productions banner and Wychwood Pictures.

Blunt most just lately starred in Jungle Cruise and A Quiet Place 2. The actor shall be subsequent seen in Christopher Nolan’s directorial Oppenheimer.