British actor Michael Sheen (“Underworld” films, Frost/Nixon, The Queen) has joined Samuel L. Jackson on the thriller Unthinkable and will also appear in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland.
Unthinkable, directed by Gregor Jordan, looks at the ethics of torture after a terrorist threatening to detonate nuclear devices in the U.S. is questioned by a black-ops interrogator and an FBI agent (Carrie-Ann Moss). The film starts shooting this month.
Sheen will also have a role in Alice in Wonderland, in which Johnny Depp is playing the Mad Hatter.
