Dominic Cooper’s highly praised dueling role in THE DEVIL'S DOUBLE is already paying dividends, as the thesp is in negotiations to star in Joel Silver’s revenge thriller MOTOR CITY, Variety's Justin Kroll exclusively reports. Project has become a priority for Warner Bros. ever since Albert Hughes came on to direct (the DEAD PRESIDENTS director had been attached to direct “Akira” for WB but eventually dropped out before moving on to MOTOR CITY). Story follows a felon who, after being released from prison, begins tracking down the men who framed him. Cooper has had a busy summer with CAPTAIN AMERICA: FIRST AVENGER and DEVIL'S DOUBLE; sources tell Variety that Silver was so taken with Cooper’s double-role as Uday Hussein/Latif Yahia in DOUBLE that he reached out to him for his next project.
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