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Paul Rudd joins sci-fi thriller Mute

Paul Rudd and Alexander Skarsgard will star in upcoming sci-fi thriller “Mute” from director Duncan Jones.

Based on a script by Jones and Mike Johnson, “Mute” is set in Berlin, forty years from today. There, a roiling city of immigrants, where East crashes against West in a science-fiction Casablanca. Leo Beiler (Skarsgard), a mute bartender has one reason and one reason only for living here, and she’s disappeared. But when Leo’s search takes him deeper into the city’s underbelly, an odd pair of American surgeons (led by Rudd) seem to be the only recurring clue, and Leo can’t tell if they can help, or who he should fear most.

Production will likely kick off in March 2016.

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