Ana de Armas Eyes Reenactment Team-Up With Benicio Del Toro
Ana de Armas is in final talks to join Benicio del Toro in Reenactment, reuniting the star with his Reptile director for their next big-screen collaboration.
Benicio Del Toro and director Grant Singer are getting the band back together for a new thriller called 'Reenactment' — and the cast just got even more interesting. Plot is locked in a vault for now, but the package is heating up fast and the plan is to roll cameras soon.
The latest: Ana de Armas is circling
Per Deadline, Ana de Armas is in final talks to join the film. Cameron Diaz is also in talks to co-star. If both deals close, that is a very spicy trio for a movie nobody will tell us anything about yet.
Who is making this thing
- Producers: Molly Smith, Trent Luckinbill, and Thad Luckinbill for Black Label; Patrick Wachsberger for 193 (which sits under the Legendary umbrella)
- Executive producers: Rachel Smith for Black Label; Ashley Stern for 193; Rick Yorn and Scott Greenberg for LBI
- International sales: Wachsberger's 193
Why this team pairing makes sense
Singer last directed Del Toro in Netflix's 'Reptile,' a crime thriller that starred Del Toro, Alicia Silverstone, Justin Timberlake, and Eric Bogosian. That one climbed to the top of Netflix's Top 10 and stayed there for a few weeks. If you missed it: it starts with a dry, dark sense of humor and gradually morphs into a tense action-thriller anchored by one of Del Toro's best performances in years.
Singer is pretty open about where his taste lives. He has said the movie DNA he reaches for is more 70s grit than glossy modern paranoia.
"Sidney Lumet is one of my favorite directors, and the movie has a lot more in common with something like 'Serpico' than a Fincher film. I love David Fincher, but people probably say 'Fincher-esque' because he is one of the few making original thrillers at that scale."
He also cites classic touchstones like Charles Laughton's 'Night of the Hunter' and Richard Brooks's 'In Cold Blood', calling the latter a huge influence. So if you are expecting clean edges, probably not that — think mood, moral murk, and pressure-cooker character work.
A quick behind-the-scenes nugget
Singer co-wrote the script with Ben Brewer, and when they first sat down with producers, there was a clear path to Del Toro thanks to shared history: Black Label produced 'Sicario' with him. Singer has said they always had Del Toro in mind, but at the time it felt like wishful thinking. That worked out last time. With 'Reenactment' drawing this level of interest before a single plot detail leaks, it looks like history is trying to repeat itself.
Bottom line: no story details yet, but the cast is shaping up, the producers are locked, 193 is handling international reach under Legendary's umbrella, and production is gearing up soon. For a project this hush-hush, the buzz is loud.