Aaron Eckhart is on the hunt for answers about his wife’s untimely death in the official trailer for the upcoming espionage thriller, ‘Chief of Station.’ The action film’s trailer was unveiled by its distributor, Vertical, in support of its release in theaters and On Demand this Friday, May 3.
The drama was written by George Mahaffey (‘Heatseekers’) and directed by Jesse V. Johnson (‘One Ranger,’ ‘White Elephant’). It was produced by Steve Lee Jones for Bee Holder Productions and Matthew Shreder for Concourse Media. ‘Chief of Station’ was shot on location in Budapest.
In addition to Eckhart, the movie also stars Alex Pettyfer and Olga Kurylenko. The thriller’s supporting cast includes Nick Moran, Chris Petrovski, Daniel Bernhardt, James Faulkner, Laetitia Eido, Isobel Wood and Nina Bergman.
‘Chief of Station’ follows former CIA European Station Chief, Ben Malloy (Eckhart) as his world comes crumbling down after his wife, a former operative, dies in a terrible accident. But after receiving cryptic information that his wife’s death might not have been an accident, Ben heads back into the shadowy underworld of Eastern Europe. Once he arrives back, he teams up with a former adversary to unravel a conspiracy that challenges everything he thought he knew about his wife and the Agency he worked at for more than 20 years.