The Rhythm Section

Three years after her family's death in a plane crash, Stephanie Patrick has become a drug-addicted sex worker in London. She is approached by journalist Keith Proctor, who believes the plane crash was a terrorist attack covered up by the government. Walking away from her brothel, Stephanie starts living with Proctor and studies his research on the crash, which he explains was caused by a bomb made by a man named Reza, who attends university in London. Stephanie buys a gun and finds Reza, but cannot bring herself to shoot him and is humiliated when he indirectly mocks her and leaves. Hours later, she returns to Proctor's apartment and finds him murdered.

Through Proctor's notes, she discovers his confidential source is "B", a disgraced MI6 agent named Iain Boyd. She travels to Scotland and finds Boyd living in seclusion; after she explains that she has nothing to lose and wants revenge, he reluctantly agrees to train her to hunt down Reza. Boyd explains that Reza was hired by a terrorist known only as U-17, who downed the plane to kill liberal Muslim reformer Abdul Kaif; Kaif's father Suleman funded Proctor's investigation into the crash. Stephanie trains for months to assume the identity of Petra Reuter, an assassin killed by Boyd whose body was never found.

As Petra, Boyd sends her to Madrid to find Marc Serra, an ex-CIA agent turned information broker, who may lead her to U-17. Stephanie asks Suleman to finance her mission; he refuses, but Kaif's mother Alia offers her the money. Stephanie carries out a series of assassinations targeting the conspirators in the terrorist attack that killed her family. Serra finally reveals that U-17 is none other than Reza. She tracks him down and leaves him to die in his own bus bombing. Stephanie returns to Serra and then kills him with a syringe at his home, having long realized that Serra has been U-17 all along, and he had been using her to kill all known connections to him.

Two weeks later, Boyd confronts Stephanie in London, revealing that he will be allowed back into MI6 if he can find and eliminate the newly resurged "Petra". Warned to disappear, Stephanie walks away having finally found peace.

• Blake Lively as Stephanie Patrick, a woman who lost her entire family in a plane crash, causing her to develop a drug addiction and become a prostitute to support her habit. Upon learning that the crash was staged, she trains for months under a former spy, learning combat, intelligence-gathering, and disguise skills, and taking the identity of freelance assassin Petra Reuter.
• Jude Law as Iain Boyd, a former MI6 operative who now lives in a cabin somewhere in rural Scotland. He becomes Stephanie's mentor and handler as she investigates her family's deaths.
• Sterling K. Brown as Marc Serra, a former CIA officer who now makes a living as a private intelligence broker
• Max Casella as Giler
• Geoff Bell as Green
• Richard Brake as Lehmans
• Raza Jaffrey as Keith Proctor, a freelance investigative journalist investigating the plane crash
• Tawfeek Barhom as Reza Mohammad
• Nasser Memarzia as Suleman Kaif
• Amira Ghazalla as Alia Kaif

On August 16, 2017, it was reported that Paramount Pictures had acquired the rights to the project.[5] It had a production budget of around $50 million, and was produced by EON Productions, the film company known for producing the James Bond films.[1]

Principal photography on the film began in December 2017 in Dublin, Ireland.[6] Production was halted temporarily after Lively was injured on the film set, with filming scheduled to begin again in June 2018.[7] Sterling K. Brown joined the cast, as production resumed in Spain in mid-2018.[8] In July 2018, filming took place in Almería with Law and Lively.[9][10]

Steve Mazzaro composed the film score, with additional music provided by Lisa Gerrard, and Hans Zimmer serves as score producer to the film. Remote Control Publishing has released the soundtrack.

The film was originally scheduled to be released on February 22, 2019, but was pushed back to November 22, 2019 following Lively's on-set injury, and later again to its ultimate release date, January 31, 2020.[11][12]

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