Jeffrey Dean Morgan is set to play the lead in Hany Abu-Assad’s The Courier, reports Deadline.
Morgan, best known for his genre roles in Watchmen and The Losers, will play a courier who specializes in illegal deliveries and who winds up caught between a myriad of pursuers when one delivery goes awry.
Hany Abu-Assad is best known for his 2005 film Paradise Now, the story of two Palestinian suicide bombers in Israel. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2006.
