BROKEN CITY (Cast News)

• BROKEN CITY

Russel Crowe

The cast for Allen Hughes' upcoming Broken City is coming together as Deadline reports that Russell Crowe has signed on to star opposite Mark Wahlberg.

The film, written by Brian Tucker, centers’ on a cop-turned-P.I. (Wahlberg) who is hired by the Mayor (Crowe) to find out if his wife is having an affair. When he confirms that she is, she soon turns up dead and the P.I. is drawn into a vast political conspiracy.

Crowe already is a busy man with films such as, The Man with the Iron Fists, a period martial arts film starring, written and directed by RZA. As well as The Man of Steel, the Zack Snyder directed, Superman Reboot film, in which he is set to star as the cape crusaders father, Jor-El.