Deadline has exclusively revealed that Anna Kendrick is set to headline the crime thriller Unsound from director Bharat Nalluri (Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, The Man Who Invented Christmas) and screenwriters Matthew Ross and Christopher Edwards.

The film will see Kendrick portraying a New England state trooper with irreversible hearing loss who is “tasked with investigating the prison break of a notorious gang leader. As she digs deeper into the most dangerous case of her career, she uncovers a vast conspiracy that, coupled with her deteriorating condition, threatens to end her career — and her life.”

Kendrick is currently shooting the HBO Max limited series Love Life, while her upcoming feature films including Chris Morris’ The Day Shall Come, Disney+’s festive comedy Noelle, and Joe Penna’s sci-fi thriller Stowaway.

via Flickering Myth