Luke Evans Joins Jennifer Aniston & Adam Sandler for Netflix's MURDER MYSTERY

According to Deadline, Luke Evans has been set to co-star in Murder Mystery, the comedy toplined by Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston that is in the works at Netflix. WORKAHOLICS hemler Kyle Newacheck is aboard to direct the script from James Vanderbilt.

Sandler plays a New York cop who finally takes his wife (Aniston) on a long-promised European trip. But a chance meeting on the flight with a mysterious man (Evans) gets them invited to an intimate family gathering on the super yacht of elderly billionaire Malcolm Quince. When Quince is murdered, the couple become the prime suspects in a modern-day whodunit.

Murder Mystery is Sandler's sixth movie with Netflix, and reteams him with Aniston after they co-starred in the 2011 comedy Just Go With It.

Evans began his career on the stage, performing in many of London's West End productions such as Rent, Miss Saigon, and Piaf before getting his Hollywood breakthrough role starring in the Clash of the Titans 2010 remake. Following his debut, Evans was cast in such action and thriller films as Immortals (2011), The Raven (2012), and the re-imagined The Three Musketeers(2011).

In 2013, Evans starred as the main antagonist Owen Shaw in the blockbuster Fast & Furious 6, and also played Bard the Bowman in Peter Jackson's three-part adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit.[2] Evans also portrayed the vampireDracula in the character's film origin story, Dracula Untold.[3] In 2017, Evans starred as Gaston in Disney's live action adaptation of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST and portrayed American psychologist William Moulton Marston; creator of fictional character Wonder Woman in the biographical drama, Professor Marston and the Wonder Women.

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