While Daniel Radcliffe is keeping the door open to play Harry Potter again, if and when that happens, it will be a long time down the road. So for now, he’s continuing to try his luck at projects that show new sides to the boy wizard, and the latest is “Imperium.”
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Written and directed by Daniel Ragussis, co-starring Toni Collette, Sam Trammell, Burn Gorman, Nestor Carbonell, and Tracy Letts, and inspired by a true story, the film finds Radcliffe playing Nate Foster, an FBI agent who goes deep undercover and infiltrates the neo-Nazi movement. And the filmmaker thinks the time is right for a movie like “Imperium” to come along.
“We’re witnessing a surge in far-right groups all across Europe; in some cases they’re nearly winning national elections,” Ragussis told EW. “We have a stereotype of what it means to be a white supremacist, but when I began collaborating with [co-screenwriter and former FBI agent] Michael [German] and doing my own research, I was stunned by the depth and the extent of this movement.”
We’ll see how “Imperium” resonates with that backdrop when it opens in theaters and on VOD on August 19th.
