Gugu Mbatha-Raw joins Kevin Hart in F. Gary Gray thriller ‘Lift’
Deadline is reporting that Gugu Mbatha-Raw is set for the female lead opposite Kevin Hart in the Netflix action thriller Lift that will be directed by F. Gary Gray.
With Dan Kunka penning the script, Vincent D’Onofrio, Billy Magnussen, Úrsula Corberó, Yun Jee Kim, Viveik Kalra and Paul Anderson round out the cast.
Hart will play a master thief who is wooed by his ex-girlfriend and the FBI to pull off an impossible heist with his international crew on a 777 flying from London to Zurich.
The film is produced by Simon Kinberg and Audrey Chon for Genre Pictures, Matt Reeves and Adam Kassan for 6th & Idaho, and Hart and Brian Smiley for HartBeat Productions. Gray, Brent O’Connor and Patricia Braga are exec producing.
She was recently seen opposite David Oyelowo in the HBO Max series The Girl Before as well as the Disney+/ Marvel series Loki and has Surface bowing this summer on Apple TV+.