Angelina Jolie to Star in and Produce Dark Thriller "Sunny"

Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie has wrapped production on "Sunny," a dark thriller that Eva Sørhaug is directing for Gramercy Park Media, A Higher Standard, and Nickel City Pictures.

In the spirit of classic mafia films, "Sunny follows a female gangster who fights to protect her sons — and herself — from an abusive drug kingpin. But when a devastating event occurs, she only has a matter of hours to plot their permanent escape.

William Day Frank penned the script from a story after conceiving the story with Sørhaug.

Gramercy Park Media’s Nathan Klingher is producing alongside Jolie, Nickel City Pictures’ Mark Fasano and A Higher Standard’s Jeffrey Greenstein, in association with Choice Films. Sørhaug is exec producing.

A Higher Standard is handling worldwide sales, with WME Independent co-repping domestic.

Calling Jolie “a tour-de-force,” Nickel City’s Fasanto said, “People are going to be shocked by what she brings with this riveting character. This violent world that Eva and Angelina have crafted is grounded in survival and family led by a mother doing anything and everything within her power to protect her two boys.”

Gramercy Park’s Klingher added, “Angelina has made this role uniquely her own. Strong, character-driven thrillers like this are rare, and the attention to detail that she and Eva have brought to the film is impressive to watch.”

Recently earning Golden Globe and Critics Choice Award nominations for her turn as opera singer Maria Callas in Pablo Larraín’s "Maria," Jolie’s other upcoming films at the moment include Alice Winocour’s TIFF-premiering Fashion Week drama "Couture," the Marc Forster comedy "Anxious People," and "The Initiative," a spy thriller reuniting her with "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" director Doug Liman.

Sørhaug is a Norwegian filmmaker whose psychological thriller "90 Minutes" premiered at the 2017 Toronto Film Festival.

In television, she recently directed multiple episodes of Ann Rice’s "Talamasca: The Secret Order" for AMC, as well as "Tokyo Vice" and "Yellowjackets".