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Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series highlighting the scripts behind the awards season’s buzziest films continues with The Order, Justin Kurzel’s period crime drama based on a chilling and timely true story. The screenplay was written by Oscar-nominated King Richard scribe Zach Baylin.

The film starring Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan and Jurnee Smollett has been hitting the fall festival circuit beginning with its world premiere at Venice. It has since opened the Zurich and Marrakesh film festivals and hit theaters in limited release this past weekend via Vertical.

Baylin’s script, adapted from the book The Silent Brotherhood by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt, centers on a string of violent robberies and other crimes beginning in the early 1980s Pacific Northwest that the FBI, and specifically veteran agent Terry Husk (Law), figured out were being perpetrated by a white supremacist group plotting to overthrow the government.

Zach Baylin knows the buzzwords already: “timely,” “prescient,” “controversial.” But the screenwriter behind such true stories as “King Richard” and “Gran Turismo” is also a student of history, so when it comes to his latest film, which follows the unnerving true story of a homegrown white supremacist militant group, he doesn’t get too caught up in the quickie designations. After all, he knows something about following a story beyond just cawing headlines and catchy descriptors.

Baylin’s latest, the Justin Kurzel-directed “The Order,” tracks the final days of neo-Nazi militant Bob Matthews (Nicholas Hoult), as he gathers together his eponymous terrorist group (a rag-tag assemblage of white supremacists) as they plot bank robberies, car heists, and government overthrow in the Pacific Northwest in the early ’80s. But Matthews’ aims are noticed by FBI agent Terry Husk (based on real-life agent Wayne Manis), and when Husk starts gathering his...

Justin Kurzel’s neo-Nazi thriller The Order opened the 21st Marrakech International Film Festival on Friday evening, with the director jetting over from Australia where he recently wrapped WWII drama The Narrow Road to the Deep North with Jacob Elordi.

Kurzel told Deadline that the Moroccan festival had been a special place for him ever since he made the 24-hour trip from Australia in 2011 to compete with first feature, true crime drama Snowtown, which won the jury prize and best actor for Daniel Henshall.

“The French distributor pleaded for me to come. It’s a long away… she said, ‘You better come… the festival will change you.’ I did… and just the city, it’s really quite magical. It was the first time I was with first-time filmmakers, so I was able to establish a bit of a posse, a bit of tribe,” he said.

Kurzel was joined by AGC boss Stuart Ford,...

Jude Law has been on fire in 2024, with “Firebrand” debuting and an announced collaboration with “City on Fire,” “Queer,” and “Challangers” screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes. Now, Law is laying down the law — literally — as an FBI agent in Justin Kurzel’s “The Order.”

Based on a true story, “The Order” follows Law’s character Terry Husk as he investigates a string of violent robberies in the Pacific Northwest. It turns out all those crimes are part of a domestic terrorist plot to overthrow the federal government. Sound familiar?

Per the official synopsis, “As the militia builds a war chest of over $4 million, Husk pursues the malevolent racist Bob Mathews (Nicholas Hoult) to a final bloody standoff that will go down in U.S. history.” Tye Sheridan, Jurnee Smollett, Alison Oliver, and Marc Maron co-star.

The film is written by “King Richard” scribe Zach Baylin, with Law and “Nitram” director Kurzel both...

Jude Law is a tenacious FBI agent hunting down a neo-Nazi terrorist group who has been behind a recent string of bank robberies and car heists in order to finance an armed uprising against the U.S. government in The Order.

Based on real events in 1980s Washington State, the trailer for Justin Kurzel’s cat-and-mouse thriller (below) sees Law as agent Terry Husk, who is convinced the robberies are not the work of petty criminals but instead of a domestic terrorist gang looking to spark a race war to overthrow the government.

The trailer points to the white supremacists who are recruiting and training new members, fund-raising, killing opponents and launching terror attacks. Ultimately, Husk’s manhunt leads to Bob Mathews, a zealous racist played by Nicholas Hoult, who fronts a terror group called The Order.

“You’re not from here, huh?” a weary Mathews asks Husk from the cab...

Screen has learned of further international licencing deals on Justin Kurzel’s upcoming Venice world premiere The Order starring Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult.

AGC International has licenced rights to the crime thriller in Middle East (Selim Ramia), Thailand (Sahamongkol), Turkey (Fabula), Philippines (Tap Digital Media Ventures), Cis and Baltic States (Mgn/Paradise Films), Israel (United King Film), and Mongolia (Filmbridge).

As previously reported, AGC licensed the bulk of international rights to Prime Video, and Vertical Entertainment will distribute in the US.

The 1983-set film stars Law as an FBI agent convinced that a domestic terror group is behind a...

Screen has learned of further international licencing deals on Justin Kurzel’s upcoming Venice world premiere The Order starring Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult.

AGC International has licenced rights to the crime thriller in Middle East (Selim Ramia), Thailand (Sahamongkol), Turkey (Fabula), Philippines (Tap Digital Media Ventures), Cis and Baltic States (Mgn/Paradise Films), Israel (United King Film), and Mongolia (Filmbridge).

As previously reported, AGC licensed the bulk of international rights to Prime Video, and Vertical Entertainment will distribute in the US.

The 1983-set film stars Law as an FBI agent convinced that a domestic terror group is behind a...

Exclusive: Vertical has acquired U.S. rights from AGC Studios to The Order, a dramatic thriller directed by Australia’s Justin Kurzel (Macbeth), on which we were first to report. Starring Jude Law (Firebrand), Nicholas Hoult (X-Men franchise), Tye Sheridan (The Card Counter), Jurnee Smollett (Birds of Prey) and more, the film will will have an exclusive release in theaters nationwide later this year.

Written by Oscar and BAFTA nominee Zach Baylin (King Richard), the film adapts Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt’s book The Silent Brotherhood, chronicling the escalating crimes of the titular white supremacist domestic terror group. It’s set in 1983, when a series of increasingly violent bank robberies, counterfeiting operations, and armored car heists frightened communities throughout the Pacific Northwest. As baffled law enforcement agents scrambled for answers, a lone FBI agent (Law), stationed in the sleepy, picturesque town of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, came to believe...

Marc Maron (Glow), Jurnee Smollett (Lovecraft Country), Alison Oliver (Saltburn), and Odessa Young (The Daughter)

have joined Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult, and Tye Sheridan for Acg Studios' The Order, Deadline reports. The crime thriller is based on Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt's 1989 book The Silent Brotherhood, which provides an insider account of "the silent brotherhood," an anti-Jewish, white supremacist group that existed in 1983 and 1984. The Order is adapted and penned by Oscar nominee Zach Baylin (King Richard) and directed by Justin Kurzel (MacBeth).

While character details for the newly announced cast members remain unknown, some information is known about Law and Hoult's characters. Law will play an FBI agent stationed in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, looking into a series of violent bank robberies who believes they are the work of a dangerous domestic terrorist group. Hoult tackles the role of the terrorist organization's radical leader.

The Order is executive produced by AGC Studio's Bryan Haas,...

Exclusive: Alison Oliver (Saltburn), Jurnee Smollett (Lovecraft Country), Marc Maron (To Leslie) and Odessa Young (The Staircase) have closed deals to join The Order, the crime thriller to be directed for Stuart Ford’s AGC Studios by Justin Kurzel, which is heading into production on Wednesday.

No specifics as to roles of the new cast members have been disclosed, but they join an ensemble that Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult and Tye Sheridan will lead, as previously announced.

Based on Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt’s book The Silent Brotherhood, which chronicles the escalating crimes of the titular white supremacist domestic terror group, the film is set in 1983 amongst the series of increasingly violent bank robberies, counterfeiting operations and armored car heists that frightened communities throughout the Pacific Northwest. As baffled law enforcement agents scrambled for answers, a lone FBI agent (Law), stationed in the sleepy, picturesque town of Coeur d’Alene,...

Exclusive: Tye Sheridan (The Tender Bar) has closed a deal to star alongside Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult in AGC Studios‘ crime thriller The Order from director Justin Kurzel, which is heading into production in Alberta, Canada on May 11th.

The film adapts the book The Silent Brotherhood by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt, which chronicles the escalating crimes of the titular white supremacist domestic terror group. It’s set in 1983 amongst the series of increasingly violent bank robberies, counterfeiting operations and armored car heists that frightened communities throughout the Pacific Northwest. As baffled law enforcement agents scrambled for answers, a lone FBI agent (Law), stationed in the sleepy, picturesque town of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, came to believe the crimes were not the work of traditional, financially motivated criminals, but a group of dangerous domestic terrorists, inspired by a radical, charismatic leader (Hoult), who are plotting...

Jude Law (Captain Marvel) and Nicholas Hoult (Mad Max: Fury Road) have signed on to star in the true crime domestic terrorism thriller The Order, which is set to be directed by Justin Kurzel (Nitram) from a screenplay written by Zach Baylin, the Oscar-nominated writer of King Richard. Baylin’s script is based on the book The Silent Brotherhood by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt.

The Silent Brotherhood tells of the escalating crimes of the titular white supremist domestic terror group. The Order has the following synopsis: In 1983, a series of increasingly violent bank robberies, counterfeiting operations and armored car heists frightened communities throughout the Pacific Northwest. As baffled law enforcement agents scrambled for answers, a lone FBI agent (Law), stationed in the sleepy, picturesque town of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, came to believe the crimes were not the work of traditional, financially motivated criminals but a group of dangerous domestic terrorists,...

Justin Kurzel to direct from Zach Baylin adapted screenplay.

AGC Studios will finance and produce crime thriller The Order with producer Bryan Haas of Chasing Epic Pictures and Jude Law’s Riff Raff Entertainment. Law and Nicholas Hoult will star and pre-sales commence at EFM this month.

Justin Kurzel will direct from Zach Baylin’s screenplay based on the book ‘The Silent Brotherhood’ by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt.

The Pacific Northwest-set feature is set in 1983 as a lone FBI agent (Law) from Idaho comes to believe a series of violent bank robberies, counterfeiting operations and armoured car heists scaring...

Exclusive: Jude Law (Fantastic Beasts) and Nicholas Hoult (X-Men franchise) have been set to lead true-crime movie The Order, which acclaimed Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel (Macbeth) will direct.

AGC Studios will finance, produce and sell the thriller, which will be a hot package at the upcoming EFM.

Oscar- and BAFTA-nominated writer Zach Baylin (King Richard), wrote the screenplay based on The Silent Brotherhood, the book by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt that chronicles the escalating crimes of the titular white supremist domestic terror group.

In 1983, a series of increasingly violent bank robberies, counterfeiting operations and armored car heists frightened communities throughout the Pacific Northwest. As baffled law enforcement agents scrambled for answers, a lone FBI agent (Law), stationed in the sleepy, picturesque town of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, came to believe the crimes were not the work of traditional, financially motivated criminals but a group of dangerous domestic terrorists, inspired by a radical,...

Exclusive: Amazon Studios is in development on Slow Burn, a globetrotting romantic comedy, to be penned by Andrew Lopez.

The film will be based on a real-life love story writer Sean Lewis told about his family on “Isn’t It Slow-Mantic”—an episode of NPR’s beloved podcast, This American Life.

It will span both continents and time to tell the story of a couple that loses contact with each other, after an initial whirlwind encounter, while being pulled in different directions by duty, family, culture, as well as themselves. When their paths cross again, will they be able to overcome all of the challenges that kept them apart the first time?

Bryan Haas is producing via Chasing Epic Pictures, with Lewis exec producing.

Lopez is a Filipino and Korean writer, director, actor and stand-up comic who was recently named a Fellow of the Sundance Institute’s 2021 Episodic Lab. He...

Exclusive: NBC has put in development The Last Video Store, a single-camera comedy from screenwriter Michael Diliberti (30 Minutes Or Less), NCIS: Los Angeles co-star Eric Christian Olsen and his Cloud Nine Productions, and CBS Television Studios where Olsen and Cloud Nine are under a deal.

Written by Diliberti, inspired by recent reporting on the world’s last Blockbuster Video store, the comedy revolves around Calvin, who returns home to run the last video rental store of a once major franchise with his estranged best friend. Calvin reconnects with his youth and past as he and his employees attempt to navigate life through their love and knowledge of movies.

Diliberti executive produces with Bryan Haas. Cloud Nine’s Olsen and Kate Schumaecker also executive produce, with John Will producing. CBS TV Studios and Cloud Nine co-produce.

Diliberti’s screenwriting credits include 30 Minutes Or Less, starring Danny McBride, Jesse Eisenberg,...

Exclusive: Clay Tarver, who currently serves as an executive producer of HBO’s Silicon Valley, will pen My War, a film adaptation to his 2013 New York Times Magazine cover story, The Rock ’N Roll Casualty Who Became a War Hero, for Amazon Studios.

Based on a true story, it follows Jason Everman who was kicked out of two bands that went on to incredible fame – Nirvana and Soundgarden – only to rise to distinction as an elite member of the U.S. Army Special Forces.

Tarver was the lead guitarist for the 1980s rock band Bullet Lavolta before forming the band Chavez in the 1990s. He met Everman in 1989 when their bands toured together.

Tarver, who previously co-wrote the 2001 Paul Walker-starring thriller Joy Ride with Jj Abrams, will executive produce the project. Bryan Haas is producing.

Tarver is repped by Wme, Wetdog Entertainment, and Hirsch Wallerstein.

Una

A new photo has emerged of Rooney Mara and Ben Mendelsohn in Benedict Andrews' "Una" (formerly titled "Blackbird"). Tara Fitzgerald and Riz Ahmed also star.

Adapted from Scottish playwright David Harrower's Olivier Award-winning play, the movie centers on an illicit and damaged love affair and its devastating consequences. The film is currently in post and doesn't have a release date. [Source: Screen]

Athena

Producer Amy Pascal has acquired Michael Diliberti's pitch "Athena" which follows a troubled young woman who is recruited by a covert agency and learns she is the descendant of the fabled goddess of wisdom and war. Rachel O'Connor and Bryan Haas would also produce. [Source: Deadline]

Nest 3D

Kellan Lutz and Kelsey Grammer are set to join Li Bingbing in the 3D killer spider sci-fi action thriller "Nest". Kimble Rendall ("Bait 3D") directs the Chinese-Australian co-production which is now in pre-production in Australia.

The story follows a...

Exclusive: Amy Pascal has just acquired Michael Diliberti’s pitch Athena, about a troubled young woman who is recruited by a covert agency and learns she is the descendant of the fabled goddess of wisdom and war. We’re hearing the deal was for mid-six against seven figures. It’s the latest pickup for Pascal, who is producing this at her new Sony-based Pascal Pictures along with Rachel O’Connor. Bryan Haas will also serve as producer. Diliberti recently sold another pitch, …...