Mark Strong has joined Joel Kinnaman on AGC Studios’ action thriller and AFM sales hour The Silent Hour.

AGC will finance and produce with producer Eric Paquette’s Meridian Pictures the story of a Boston Police detective (Kinnaman) who suffers an on-the-job accident which leaves him hearing-impaired.

Sixteen months later he is an interpreter for the department and with his friend and partner (Strong) must battle a team of corrupt cops attempting to eliminate a deaf murder witness in the apartment building where she lives.

Brad Anderson (Beirut, The Machinist) from an original screenplay by Dan Hall. Paquette serves as producer with AGC and the project, which is actively casting, is scheduled to go into production in early 2023.

Strong can currently be seen in Oscar contender Tár and his credits include 1917, Cruella, the Kingsman franchise, and Zero Dark Thirty.

Brad Anderson (Beirut, The Call, The Machinist) will direct from an original screenplay by Dan Hall. 

Jessica Kovacevic and Jordan Naftalis at WME negotiated the deal behalf of Strong with AGC’s SVP of legal and business affairs Anant Tamirisa and creative executive Michael Ewing.