EXCLUSIVE: Lara Wolf has been cast in the Guy Moshe action thriller Hotel Tehran, alongside Liam Neeson and Zachary Levi, sources tell Deadline.
She will play Maryam, a smart, courageous, compassionate woman who has not lost her humanity. Maryam is the daughter of famous dissident Fariba Rajevi. She is a journalist/photographer fighting for women’s rights who has been brutalized in an Iranian prison for the past five years.
Levi leads the film as Tucker, the leader of a unit of disgraced, war-torn ex-CIA operators, into the heart of Tehran to take down a life-changing score.
Moshe wrote the script with Mark Bacci (Prisoner’s Daughter), from an original idea by Bazzel Baz (The Blacklist), a former CIA special operations group officer. Oakhurst Entertainment is financing. Oakhurst’s Marina Grasic is producing alongside Matthew G. Zamias (Boxing Day), co-founder of the new financing and production company Astral Future, as well as Wendy Sweetmore of Dreamtime Films. Astral Future’s Harel Kodesh and Arbel Kodesh executive produce alongside Moshe, Baz, Justin C. Oberman, and William Doyle (The Killer). Kerry Barden and Paul Schnee (Spotlight) are handling casting.
Wolf most recently starred in the Peacock series Those About to Die opposite Anthony Hopkins. She is repped by Vault Entertainment
