While best known for his performances in the ’90s in the “American Pie” movies and “Election,” Chris Klein is ready to shed those youthful roles, and show a new side of his acting talents. And he does just that in the upcoming “Game Of Aces,” a WWI action film that shows the actor like we’ve never seen him before.
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Written and directed by Damien Lay, and also starring Victoria Summer and Werner Daehn, the film kicks off in the Arabian Desert, where a downed German double agent awaits rescue. Enter Captain Jackson Cove, an American pilot flying for the British allied forces, sent in to recover Captain Josef von Zimmerman and the information he’s carrying for the Allies. Cove’s joined by young English nurse and German translator Eleanor Morgan, who struggles to keep up in the arid wasteland. When they find Zimmerman, severely injured and suffering from amnesia, Cove discovers all is not as it seems. The mission soon disintegrates into a sandstorm of deceit, confusion and danger, and Cove, caught in the middle, has got to fly his way out.
“Something about independent filmmaking which is a lot of fun is that you get to take risks that you otherwise wouldn’t be allowed to take on any other film production, and probably wisely,” Klein told Bustle about the spirited production. “But [with ‘Game Of Aces’], that’s really one of the things that you sign up to do. ‘Yes, I’m involved in every frame of this movie,’ and you commit to that.”
“Game Of Aces” opens this Friday, September 2nd.