Chilean filmmaker Felipe Gálvez’s caught quite a few people by surprise with his 2023 revisionist western, The Settlers. It’s a film that used genre and extreme violence to explore Chile’s marginalized history. Now Gálvez is back with his sophomore effort, Impunity, and it’s going to be a considerably more star-studded affair, as it will be led by Sebastian Stan and Ana de Armas.
Stan and de Armas will star in Impunity, a spy thriller directed by Gálvez. The film is set in 1998 and centers around a legal case involving the arrest and attempted extradition of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in London. The story is based on Philippe Sands’ book, 38 Londres Street.
Both English and Spanish will be incorporated, so Stan is actively learning to speak the latter now. Filming is expected to begin this year.
Also in the cast are Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers, and Alejandro Goic.
Here’s a synopsis of the book:
“Set against the backdrop of one of the legal cases of the 20th century, when Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London in 1998. For the first time, a former dictator could lose his immunity and face justice beyond his own country. As two covert operations unfold behind closed doors, a mercenary recruited by an NGO and a Chilean envoy are drawn into a labyrinth of conspiracies, betrayals, and geopolitical maneuvering — only to discover, at their own expense, that the real battle for justice is fought far from the courtroom, in the shadows.”
Neither Stan or de Armas are strangers to espionage movies. He, of course, has played super-spy Bucky “The Winter Soldier” Barnes in the MCU for years, msot recently in Thunderbolts*. She played a spy supporting James Bond in No Time to Die, and another covert operative in The Gray Man. [Variety]
