This Is England star joined by Elisa Wald Lasowski and Twilight’s MyAnna Buring in rounding out the cast of the London crime thriller.

Stephen Graham, star of This Is England and HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, has joined the cast of crime drama Hyena. Other new cast members include Elisa Wald Lasowski, who starred in Shane Meadows’ Somers Town, and MyAnna Buring, who appeared in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Kill List and The Descent.

They join Peter Ferdinando and Neil Maskell in the thriller, produced by Number 9 Films and currently halfway through its London shoot.

Writer-director Gerard Johnson’s follow up to his debut, Tony, follows a corrupt policeman (Ferdinando) challenged by Albanian gang lords. 

Joanna Laurie, Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen produce for Number 9 Films and it was developed with Film4.

The film is financed by Film4, BFI, Ingenious and Lipsync.

International sales are being handled by Independent and the UK distributor is Metrodome.

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