EXCLUSIVE: Leila George is in final negotiations to join Josh Hartnett in Oliver Stone‘s next film White Lies as production gets underway. Stone penned the script and will direct the original feature, which is described as a departure from his previous work, an intimate piece that explores “family, loss and pain and how love can change shape in the course of our lifetimes.”
In a story told across three generations, the pic “follows Jack Freeman (Hartnett), a child of divorce now repeating his parents’ mistakes in his own marriage and with his own children. Feeling trapped, he embarks on a lust-filled journey to free himself — only to find himself more lost than before. When he meets a woman whose life is the opposite of his own, he begins an unexpected journey of rediscovery.”
Principal photography is taking place across international locations including Rome, Italy, Bangkok, Thailand, and Sofia, Bulgaria. Additional casting will be revealed shortly. John Burnham and Lawrence Kopeikin will exec produce.
The film is produced by Fernando Sulichin alongside Maximilien Arvelaiz and Jordan Gertner for Sulichin’s New Element Media, which produced Stone’s Savages and Snowden and multiple other projects. Tarak Ben Ammar and Gianluca Leurini for Eagle Pictures serve as executive producers, as do James Packer and Jose Luis Manzano, both longtime collaborators of Sulichin.
George can currently be seen on the Ryan Murphy series Love Story on FX. She recently wrapped production on the Amazon MGM Studios pic Road House 2 starring Jake Gyllenhaal and is currently shooting the Netflix series All Sinners Bleed before she jumps into production on White Lies.
She was also recently seen in the Apple TV series Disclaimer opposite Cate Blanchett.
George is repped by WME, Strand Entertainment, United Agents and United Management.