Michael Stuhlbarg is set to join Matt Damon and Casey Affleck in The Instigators for Apple Original Films. Hong Chau and Paul Walter Hauser also are on board, with Doug Liman aboard to direct.
Damon and Ben Affleck are producing through their newly announced banner Artists Equity, along with Jeff Robinov and John Graham through Studio 8 and Kevin Walsh through his The Walsh Company.
The film follows two thieves who go on the run with the help of one of their therapists after a robbery goes awry. The script was penned by Chuck MacLean and Casey Affleck and developed by Robinov, Graham and Casey Affleck.
Stuhlbarg is coming off the second season of the Showtime series Your Honor, on which he co-stars opposite Bryan Cranston. He also recently was seen in the HBO limited series The Staircase and the MGM film Bones and All. Other recent credits include Hulu’s Dopesick, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Traitors.
He is repped by CAA, Viking Entertainment and Hansen Jacobson Teller.
The news was first reported by Above the Line.
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