Rob Riggle and Andy Garcia Cast in Kevin James Netflix Original Feature Film
Two action-comedy powerhouses are joining forces with Netflix for a tale of mistaken identity, international kidnapping and general debauchery. Kevin James is teaming up with Kick Ass 2 writer/director Jeff Wadlow for the Netflix original movie True Memoirs of an International Assassin. James will play a mild mannered author whose fictional story of an assassin gets filed in the “non-fiction” section. When his novel is interpreted as real life, he is suddenly kidnapped and taken to Venezuela and forced into an assassination plot. The film will premiere on the streaming service in 2016.
Wednesday Netflix announced the casting is complete, with comedy movie go-to guy Rob Riggle joining James and a stellar supporting cast, including: Andy Garcia (Kill the Messenger), Maurice Compte (Netflix’s Narcos), Kelen Coleman (CBS The McCarthy’s), Andrew Howard (Taken 3), Leonard Earl Howze (TNT’s Memphis Beat), Yul Vazquez (Lifetime Networks The Lottery) and Kim Coates (FX Network’s Sons of Anarchy).
The film is a co-production between Kevin Frakes, Mark Fasano and Ankur Rungta of PalmStar Media, Todd Garner of Broken Road Productions and Raja Collins and Justin Begnaud of Global Film Group. The script was written by Jeff Morris and Jeff Wadlow. Guy Riedel serves as executive producer. The rest of the filmmaking team includes director of photography Peter Collister (Underworld: Awakening), production designer Toby Corbett (Pitch Perfect 2), and costume designer Lizz Wolf (The Expendables 3). The film is being edited by Sean Albertson (The Expendables 3).
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