Michael Sheen and Andrea Riseborough to Star in Resistance Film

Stage and screen stars Michael Sheen and Andrea Riseborough will star in Amit Gupta’s debut feature, Resistance, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Gupta will co-write the screenplay with Owen Sheers, whose novel is the basis for the film. Oscar winner Rachel Portman is set to score the film.

The movie is set in an alternative 1944 where Russia has fallen to Nazi Germany and the D-Day landings have failed. With Britain partly occupied by German forces, a group of Welsh villagers wake to discover that their husbands have mysteriously disappeared. Sheen will play a secret service agent.

Sheen’s Broadway credits include Amadeus and Frost/Nixon. Riseborough appeared earlier this year in MCC’s production of The Pride.