EXCLUSIVE: The inaugural SXSW London Screen Festival’s Centrepiece Headliner will be the world premiere of Amazon’s crime-comedy Deep Cover, starring Bryce Dallas Howard, Orlando Bloom, Nick Mohammed and Sean Bean.
Directed by Tom Kingsley, the film will see Bryce Dallas Howard as Kat, an improv comedy teacher beginning to question if she’s missed her shot at success. When an undercover cop (Sean Bean) offers her the role of a lifetime, she recruits two of her students (Orlando Bloom and Nick Mohammed) to infiltrate London’s gangland by impersonating dangerous criminals.
Also starring are Paddy Considine, Sonoya Mizuno, and Ian McShane.
Writers are Derek Connolly and Colin Trevorrow, Ben Ashenden and Alexander Owen. Producers are Colin Trevorrow, Walter F. Parkes, and Laurie MacDonald.
The premiere will take place on Wednesday 4 June, the midpoint of the overall festival, which runs from June 2-7 in London’s Shoreditch district. Mike Flanagan’s Tom Hiddleston starrer The Life Of Chuck has been set as the closing film.
SXSW London, which will include screen, music and tech verticals, is expected to reveal its broader screen lineup in coming days. Idris Elba, Deepak Chopra, Katherine Ryan, Wyclef Jean, Tems, Jenn Nkiru, Jean-Michel Jarre and Joe Wicks are among speakers to have been set for the first edition of the London spinoff of the popular Austin festival. Deadline’s parent company PMC is a significant shareholder in SXSW.