Eastern Promise for Naomi Watts
Naomi Watts is to join Viggo Mortensen in David Cronenberg’s London-set Russian mob drama Eastern Promises.
From a script by Steven Knight (Dirty Pretty Things), the story dives into the seedy London underbelly. Watts will play Anna, a midwife working at a London hospital who is inadvertently drawn into the criminal underworld when she tries to discover the true identity of a prostitute who died during childbirth on Christmas Eve. Mortensen plays the maniacal Nikolai, who has links to one of London’s most ruthless crime families. Nikolai’s carefully calculated existence is thrown into shambles when he crosses paths with Anna.
Shooting for the film is due to start in November with an expected 2008 release date.
Sunday 21 May 2006 | Paul | New and Upcoming Films
