Olivia Cooke (House of the Dragon) has joined the cast of Anton Corbijn’s thriller Switzerland starring Helen Mirren as crime novelist and Tom Ripley creator Patricia Highsmith.
Sources close to the production have confirmed her casting as filming gets underway in Rome, ahead of moving to northern Italy, Switzerland and London.
The movie has been adapted by Australian writer Joanna Murray-Smith from her play of the same name, revolving around Patricia Highsmith’s encounter with an ambitious young literary agent, played by previously attached Alden Ehrenreich (Oppenheimer).
Set in 1995, an ageing Patricia Highsmith is living a secluded existence in the Swiss Alps with only her cats for company.
When a pushy young man turns up at her residence, sent by her New York publisher to persuade her to write a final book in her best-selling Tom Ripley series, it becomes clear he is on a more sinister mission.
Producers are Gabrielle Tana Troy Lum and Andrew Mason at Brouhaha Entertainment; Jim Robison and Kurt Martin for Lunar Pictures; Karl Spoerri at Switzerland’s Zurich Avenue; and Andrea Occhipinti for Italy’s Lucky Red.
FilmNation Entertainment is handling international sales.
