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.