Crowe will play a retired detective reinvestigating an old case.





Gladiator fans will be delighted to learn that Russell Crowe has been cast in a new film. Variety has reported that Crowe has signed on to star in an upcoming crime thriller Sleeping Dogs where he will be playing a retired detective reinvestigating an old case to discover the truth before its too late.


Sleeping Dogs is based on E.O. Chirovicis 2017 novel  The Book of Mirrors. The film will follow Crowe as Roy Freeman, a retired homicide detective who is  undergoing a cutting edge Alzheimers treatment. When a death row inmate Freeman helped lock away begins to claim innocence Freeman begins to reexamine the circumstances around the case. With the help of his old parents Freeman must fight to get back his memories and uncover the truth once and for all.


Crowe is an academy award winning actor with an expansive career. He has done everything from historical epics like Gladiator to musicals like Les Misérables to dramas like A Beautiful Mind. Sleeping Dogs will also not be the actors first foray into the crime thriller genre he has previously starred in critically acclaimed crime films such as The Nice Guys and L.A. Confidential. Crowe can next be seen in the upcoming dramedy The Greatest Beer Run Ever horror movie The Popes Exorcist and thriller Poker Face.


Sleeping Dogs will be the directorial debut of Adam Cooper who co wrote the script with long time writing partner Bill Collage. Cooper and Collage have had a long career of writing together having written action movies like Assassins Creed biblical epics like Ridley Scotts Exodus Gods and Kings comedies like Accepted and even the classic Olsen Twins movie New York Minute.