Brad Anderson, director of Session 9 and The Machinist, has cast Joel Kinnaman as the protagonist in his next action thriller, The Silent Hour. The protagonist of The Silent Hour is a deaf police officer. The screenplay for the movie was written by Dan Hall. Stuart Ford of AGC Studios and Eric Paquette of Meridian Pictures will be the film’s financiers and producers. The Silent Hour is scheduled to begin filming early next year, but no further cast members have been revealed as of yet. In The Silent Hour, Kinnaman plays a Boston investigator who is involved in a workplace accident. The event left the investigator deaf, but sixteen years later, he began working as an interpreter for the police force.
The investigator will soon have to take drastic measures to save a deaf witness in an apartment complex from corrupt police who would do all it takes to remove them. The synopsis paints a picture of an original action story with equal parts thrills and emotion. Kinnaman has had a rich career and has starred in a wide variety of films. Following his breakout performance in the 2010 Swedish crime drama Easy Money, Kinnaman played alongside Mireille Enos in the 2011 mystery crime series The Killing, which aired for four seasons on Netflix.
Kinnaman has since appeared in a number of blockbuster movies, including The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, RoboCop, Run All Night, Child 44, Suicide Squad, and Suicide Squad 2021. In addition to House of Cards, Kinnaman’s acting credits include Altered Carbon, In Treatment, Hanna, and For All Mankind. Kinnaman’s next film projects include Silent Night and Sympathy for the Devil. Anderson has directed a large number of films, many of which are action or thrillers that deal with the darker aspects of life and the human mind. Anderson directed the indie horror success Session 9 in 2001 after helming a number of festival favourites, including Happy Accidents with Marisa Tomei.
Thereafter, Anderson directed the films The Machinist, Transsiberian, The Call, Beirut, and Fractured. Anderson has directed episodes for a wide variety of popular series, including Masters of Horror, Fringe, Boardwalk Empire, The Killing, The Sinner, Clickbait, and Peacemaker. Next up for Anderson is the horror picture Blood, and he’s also attached to direct The Dwarf and Confessions of a Memory Eater. Besides that, we don’t know too much else about The Silent Hour at the moment.