Emilia Clarke, aka Khaleesi from “Game of Thrones,” is heavily featured in the new trailer for “Above Suspicion.” Clarke sports a distracting Southern accent in this new thriller, playing a woman in Kentucky who becomes involved with an FBI agent. The film is based on Joe Sharkey’s 1993 non-fiction book of the same name.
More intriguingly, “Above Suspicion” is directed by Phillip Noyce. The 70-year-old Aussie filmmaker had a solid one-two punch in 2002 with “The Quiet American,” and “Rabbit-Proof Fence,” his two most personal and accomplished films to date, but has been mostly a hired hand in the industry, directing good-to-decent studio fare (“Salt,” “Patriot Games,” Catch A Fire” “Dead Calm”), and none-too-impressive as well (“The Bone Collector” “The Giver,” “The Saint” “Sliver”).
Joining Clarke in the cast are Jack Huston, Sophie Lowe, Johnny Knoxville, and Thora Birch. The trailer plays like a down-and-dirty B-movie, which could go either way really. It does seem to be a good fit for a straight-to-digital release, which is exactly what the plan is for its, as-of-now, dateless distribution. Expect this to probably come out in the coming weeks.
This is the adaptation of the nonfiction book by Dan Schilling and Lori Longfritz. It wrapped production in February and has been in post-production ever since. The film test-screened a few months ago.