David Harbour & Brendan Fraser Join Steven Soderbergh Crime Movie

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No Sudden Move, an upcoming heist thriller from Steven Soderbergh, has just added David Harbour (Stranger Things), Brendan Fraser (The Mummy), and Noah Jupe (A Quiet Place) to its cast. Since his career breakthrough with Sex, Lies, and Videotape in 1989, Soderbergh has taken an experimental approach to universal subject matter. The director has also established a reputation for producing crime movies with mainstream appeal that explore deeper themes.

Soderbergh's latest is a heist thriller for HBO Max, which started production this Monday on location in Detroit. The Wrap reports Harbour and Fraser will join a promising cast that includes Soderbergh's frequent collaborator Don Cheadle, as well as crime flick regulars Ray Liotta and Bill Duke. Jon Hamm, Frankie Shaw, Kieran Culkin, Julia Fox, and Amy Seimetz have also signed on. The movie was originally titled Kill Switch and had George Clooney, Sebastian Stan, and John Cena attached, but production was halted due to COVID-19. Safety protocols will be carefully followed during filming.

The script for No Sudden Move was written by Ed Solomon and sets the action in 1950s Detroit. The central heist will be carried out by a group of amateur criminals who are tasked with stealing a document whose contents are unknown. When their plan goes awry, it becomes apparent the papers contain important information, forcing the characters to get to the bottom of who hired them and why.

Soderbergh generally nails it on the casting front, and watching the No Sudden Move group pull off their caper will be reason enough to stream the movie when it comes out. Many of the actors involved have already established (fictional) criminal records: along with Liotta and Duke, Fox earned recognition for her naturally charismatic performance in the frenetic crime thriller Uncut Gems. In a different stretch of midtown Manhattan, Culkin is also committing his fair share of legal transgressions as the tragically wealthy Roman Roy on HBO's Succession. All told, Harbour, Fraser, and Jupe join an already impressive cast on No Sudden Move.