James Franco and Tommy Lee Jones to star in thriller ‘The Razor’s Edge’

James Franco and Tommy Lee Jones to star in thriller ‘The Razor’s Edge’, which will begin filming in June in Georgia, United States, the specialized media Deadline reported this Monday.

The film by director Demian Lichtenstein, according to this source, will be offered at the next Marché du Film de Cannes, a meeting scheduled for between May 14 and 22 and which, within the framework of the French film competition, connects the main producers, distributors, sales agents, festival representatives and industry buyers.

The film that will star James Franco and Tommy Lee Jones follow the story of a hitman trying to leave his criminal past behind, but he is forced to undertake one last and dangerous mission when his daughter and the woman he loves become the target of a criminal group.

“I am delighted to have signed the talented actors James and Tommy Lee to bring ‘The Razor’s Edge’ to the big screen. “They are perfectly qualified to play the protagonists,” Corey Large, the film’s producer, said in a statement to Deadline.

The last projects in which he participated James Franco They were in 2019, the year in which he acted in the series ‘The Deuce’ and in which he lent his voice to the animated film ‘Arctic Dogs’.

However, she has eight productions on the way, including ‘Alina of Cuba: The Rebel Daughter’, where she will play Fidel Castro (1926-2016), or ‘Hey Joe’.

James Franco was nominated for an Oscar for best actor for ‘127 Hours’ and he has won two Golden Globes, first for ‘James Dean’, in which he played the lead role, and then for ‘The Disaster Artist’, which he directed and starred in.

For its part, the last appearance of Tommy Lee Jones On the big screen it was in the film ‘The Burial’ alongside Jamie Foxx. The 77-year-old actor has been nominated for an Oscar four times, and thanks to his work in ‘The Fugitive’ he won a golden statuette in 1994.

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