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After a tough bidding war, Amazon landed the rights to Crime 101, and Oscar winner Halle Berry is in negotiations to join the cast of the project as the female lead, alongside Chris Hemsworth.
Crime 101 will be based on the 2021 novella by the same name written by Don Winslow, which is centered on detective Lou Lubesnick as he attempts to solve a string of jewel heists by tracking the perpetrator who interestingly follows a strict bunch of rules called the Crime 101.
The movie will closely follow the plot of the original short story that takes place up and down the Pacific Coast.
Halle Berry joins the cast of Amazon MGM Studios' Crime 101
Critically acclaimed African American actor Halle Berry will join the cast of the Amazon crime thriller. She has been cast as the female lead in the movie, opposite Hemsworth, who leads the cast.
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Halle Berry has had a long acting career. She made history in 2002 when she became the first and only African American woman to receive the Best Actress Oscar for her role in Monster’s Ball.
Berry has also starred in and produced the projects like Introducing Dorothy Dandridge for HBO, for which she won the Emmy and Golden Globe, and Frankie and Alice, earning a Globe nomination.
Some of her other credits include Spike Lee’s Jungle Fever, Boomerang, X-Men, Die Another Day, The Call, John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, and, most recently, Netflix’s The Union.
Halle Berry has also produced the Lionsgate thriller Never Let Go through her production company HalleHolly and will start work on Maude Vs. Maude and The Process soon.
What else do we know about the movie?
As of now, plot details and the release date of the movie are being kept under tight wraps, so there isn't any official synopsis from the studio.
However, based on the book, it's understood that Crime 101 follows a series of high-level jewelry thefts up and down the Pacific Coast Highway that have remained unsolved for years owing to a strict code of conduct the perpetrator has followed, which he calls, “Crime 101.”
The police have attributed the thefts to the Colombian cartels, but Detective Lou Lubesnick believes it's the work of just one man. Finally, when the jewel thief is looking for a fabled final score, Lou breaks all the rules of Crime 101 to find out who the criminal is.
Bart Layton is directing the movie, written by him and Peter Straughan, while it's produced by Story Factory’s Shane Salerno, Working Title’s Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan, RAW’s Layton and Dimitri Doganis and Derrin Schlesinger.
Chris Hemsworth will produce alongside his producing partner Ben Grayson. Alongside Hemsworth and Berry, Barry Keoghan and Mark Ruffalo will also star.
The Amazon thriller begins shooting in two weeks and will likely arrive in theaters next year.
