Netflix announced that Gabriel Basso and Luciane Buchanan have joined the cast of “The Night Agent,” Netflix’s upcoming political thriller adapted from Matthew Quirk’s novel of the same name.
Basso will star as Peter Sutherland, a low-level FBI agent who works in the basement of the White House manning a rarely used emergency hotline for American spies. Buchanan plays Rose Larkin, a terrified civilian and young tech CEO Peter must protect after she calls the hotline when assassins come for her aunt and uncle and she realizes they weren’t who they said they were. Together, Peter and Rose work to uncover a conspiracy that threatens to rock the nation.
Basso is known for starring as J. D. Vance in “Hillbilly Elegy,” the 2020 adaptation of Vance’s memoir of the same name. Other prominent credits include playing Mike Lassiter in “The Whole Truth” and Martin Read in “Super 8.
Basso will star as Peter Sutherland, a low-level FBI agent who works in the basement of the White House manning a rarely used emergency hotline for American spies. Buchanan plays Rose Larkin, a terrified civilian and young tech CEO Peter must protect after she calls the hotline when assassins come for her aunt and uncle and she realizes they weren’t who they said they were. Together, Peter and Rose work to uncover a conspiracy that threatens to rock the nation.
Basso is known for starring as J. D. Vance in “Hillbilly Elegy,” the 2020 adaptation of Vance’s memoir of the same name. Other prominent credits include playing Mike Lassiter in “The Whole Truth” and Martin Read in “Super 8.
- 11/22/2021
- by Selome Hailu
- Variety Film + TV
It’s been a curious few weeks for adult fare at the multiplex. With girls on trains, autistic accountants and ex-military vigilantes, there’s no shortage of movies that your mom would love. Courtney Hunt’s The Whole Truth fits nicely into that roster, but without the bestselling book, high concept or star power to warrant being a fall tentpole. It instead resembles a film whose script has been sitting on a shelf since 1996, cast included.
Situated as standard courtroom drama fodder, the film opens on Keanu Reeves’ cynical defense attorney Richard Ramsey having a bad time. Through the confines of some unwelcome narration, we learn that he is tasked with representing Mike Lassiter (Gabriel Basso), a teenager on trial for the murder of his wealthy father and neighborhood shitheel, Boone (Jim Belushi). Ramsay is on the wrong end of what appears to be an open-and-shut murder case. He is more or less defenseless,...
Situated as standard courtroom drama fodder, the film opens on Keanu Reeves’ cynical defense attorney Richard Ramsey having a bad time. Through the confines of some unwelcome narration, we learn that he is tasked with representing Mike Lassiter (Gabriel Basso), a teenager on trial for the murder of his wealthy father and neighborhood shitheel, Boone (Jim Belushi). Ramsay is on the wrong end of what appears to be an open-and-shut murder case. He is more or less defenseless,...
- 10/21/2016
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Murder and the courtroom dramas that surround it are as American, in movies, as pie, and it is now the turn of that old-school cool hero of action films, Keanu Reeves, to take a turn at the tried and true genre. In the upcoming whodunit The Whole Truth, which has Agatha Christie aspirations it does not achieve, he plays the sufficiently cynical defense counsel Richard Ramsay tasked with defending teenager Mike Lassiter (Gabriel Basso), on trial for the murder of his father Boone (played by a growling Jim Belushi).
The overwrought premise of the first third of the film is that the trial has begun even though Mike, the client, has not spoken a word since the day of the murder, not even to Ramsay, his attorney. After each witness testifies forcefully for the prosecution, Ramsay intentionally fumbles the cross-examination in order to comically remind Mike that “this is what...
The overwrought premise of the first third of the film is that the trial has begun even though Mike, the client, has not spoken a word since the day of the murder, not even to Ramsay, his attorney. After each witness testifies forcefully for the prosecution, Ramsay intentionally fumbles the cross-examination in order to comically remind Mike that “this is what...
- 10/20/2016
- by J Don Birnam
- LRMonline.com
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