Aaron Eckhart has some pretty impressive work on his CV. Despite appearing in Stupid Movie Physics-favourite The Core, he has racked up top-drawer work in Erin Brockovich, Thank You For Smoking, The Dark Knight, The Pledge and In The Company Of Men.

Add to that his upcoming appearance alongside Nicole Kidman in festival-favourite Rabbit Hole, a return to bigger budgets with next year’s World Invasion: Battle LA and now, “The Expatriate”.

In The Expatriate, Eckhart will play a former CIA operative, estranged from his daughter, who takes a job in Belgium as security advisor for a multi-national corporation, only to turn up for his first day at work and find that the company doesn’t exist, his colleagues are nowhere to be found and his assistant is an assassin who intends to kill him and his daughter.

They promptly go on the run together, trying to mend their relationship, while dealing with the fallout from his daughter finding out about his past with the CIA (which, of course, she was previously unaware of). It doesn’t feel like too much of a stretch to surmise that in the course of surviving the attentions of a trained killer, father and daughter reconnect and healing and forgiveness flow. Hopefully there’s a lot of running, shooting and fighting as well.

Philipp Stolzl (North Face) will direct from A E  Amel’s script.

Source: Deadline.

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