Benedict Cumberbatch Stars In The Thriller ‘The Courier’
From director Dominic Cooke (Follies) and writer Tom O’Conner (The Hitman’s Bodyguard) comes the crime thriller The Courier starring Doctor Strange’s Benedict Cumberbatch. The film is “a true-life spy thriller, the story of an unassuming British businessman Greville Wynne (Benedict Cumberbatch) recruited into one of the greatest international conflicts in history. At the behest of the UK’s MI-6 and a CIA operative (Rachel Brosnahan), he forms a covert, dangerous partnership with Soviet officer Oleg Penkovsky (Merab Ninidze) in an effort to provide crucial intelligence needed to prevent a nuclear confrontation and defuse the Cuban Missile Crisis.” Lionsgate along with Roadside Attractions will release The Courier in theaters on March 19, 2021.
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