Antonio Banderas to Star in Thriller Movie "The Last Girl"

Spanish actor Antonio Banderas has signed on to star in the thriller movie "The Last Girl" for Yale Entertainment.

Shelley Hennig and Alice Eve will also star in the project.

Eve plays a private investigator forced into a dangerous alliance with a killer (Hennig) in order to uncover a quiet town’s grisly criminal underbelly and clear the name of her mentor (Banderas), who is implicated in the crimes.

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The movie is written by Charles Burnley and directed by Jon Keeyes.

Jordan Yale Levine, Jordan Beckerman, and Michael J. Rothstein are producing for Yale Entertainment, along with Richard Bolger and Conor Barry from Hail Mary Pictures, and Richard Clabaugh.

Executive producers include Jesse Korman and Jeffrey Tussi from Yale, Nick Donnermeyer from Yale’s Great Escape, BondIt’s Luke Taylor and Matt Helderman, Kurt Ebner, Stephen Braun, Kade Thomas, Jason Kringstein, Scott Levenson, Richard Switzer, Colby Cote, Lee Broda, Aden Darmody, Jonathan Zuck, Luke Daniels, Shaun Sanghani, Tyler Konney, and Grant Johnson.

Yale’s recently launched sales banner Great Escape, led by Donnermeyer, will handle worldwide sales.

Principal photography will begin in Ireland this summer.

Banderas’ decades-long career has spanned stage and screen in both the United States and his homeland.

He is a frequent collaborator of iconic Spanish writer-director Pedro Almodóvar who has starred in a number of his most notable titles, including "Pain and Glory", for which he won the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival, also landing an Academy Award nomination in the same category.

Banderas can currently be seen starring with Penelope Cruz in the Spanish comedy Official Competition, is set to return as the voice of Puss in Boots in "Puss in Boots: The Last Wish", and next year stars in the highly anticipated fifth installment of the Indiana Jones franchise.