After directing the fairly fun, but forgettable Safe House for his English-language debut, Daniel Espinosa is getting into more serious, promising territory with the World War II drama Child 44. After production concluded this summer, we now have the first look of the film starring Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, and Noomi Rapace.
Coming from Tom Rob Smith‘s novel (adapted by The Wire writer Richard Price), Child 44 finds Tom Hardy portraying Leo Stepanovich Demidov, a Soviet police officer investigating a child killer run amok in the last days of Stalin‘s reign. Also starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joel Kinnaman, we expect Summit Entertainment will give this a 2014 release (likely after a fall festival bow), but in the meantime, check out our first images above and below. [Rope of Silicon]
Are you looking forward to Child 44?