Russell Crowe will play a detective with Alzheimer’s in ‘Sleeping Dogs’

Russell Crowe‘s next film role will be a crime-thriller in which he plays a detective with Alzheimer’s, known as Sleeping Dogs.

Based on the critically-hailed novel, The Book of Mirrors by E.O. Chirovici, Sleeping Dogs will signify the primary movie directed by Adam Cooper. Cooper co-penned the movie alongside Bill Collage, with the duo beforehand writing the scripts for Assassins Creed and Exodus: Gods and Kings, as Variety studies.

The Nickel City Pictures movie facilities round Crowe’s Roy Freeman, a former murder detective who’s introduced again into the gumshoe way of life when one of many folks he helped put away — now on demise row — claims to be harmless. As the Variety article defined in its synopsis,

“Intrigued and fighting to regain his memory, Freeman enlists his former partner to help him revive the case and discover the truth. Together, they set off to unravel a tangled web of secrets, forcing Freeman to make some horrific discoveries.”

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In the movie, Crowe’s character not solely has to take care of the potential repercussions of a person whom he arrested a decade prior, however all whereas “undergoing a cutting-edge Alzheimer’s treatment.”

Crowe received an Academy Award for his portrayal of a sword-and-sandal hero in Gladiator and was additionally twice nominated for the coveted gold statue for his performances within the movies The Insider and A Beautiful Mind.

Nowadays, Crowe has been concerned in an eclectic array of initiatives that proceed to showcase his vary as an actor. Case in level, his comedic and scene-stealing portrayal of Zeus within the Marvel movie Thor: Love and Thunder this summer season and a foreboding efficiency as a road-rageaholic antagonist within the 2020 thriller Unhinged.

Sleeping Dogs is predicted to enter manufacturing in Jan. 2023.