Hot off his starring role in Terminator Genisys, Jai Courtney has signed on to star in The Kaiser’s Last Kiss. Courtney joins a cast that includes Lily James and Christopher Plummer, with David Leveaux set to direct. Simon Burke adapted Alan Judd’s novel for the screen.
The Kaiser’s Last Kiss is set up with Egoli Tossell Film and Ostar Enterprises. Bill Haber and Phil Geier are on board as executive producers.
In addition to Terminator Genisys, Courtney’s film credits include Unbroken, The Water Diviner, Divergent, Insurgent, and A Good Day to Die Hard. He’s also currently working on Suicide Squad starring Jared Leto and Will Smith.
The Plot:
The Kaiser’s Last Kiss takes place around the 1940 invasion of Holland which brings the Nazis face to face with their former monarch, Kaiser Wilhelm (Plummer) – exiled to the Netherlands since 1917. In an effort to thwart the Nazis, the Dutch resistance work covertly with Winston Churchill in inserting an agent into the Kaiser’s household. A lethally dangerous love affair ignites between a German officer (Courtney) and a young Jewish Dutch woman (James) with consequences that neither they nor the Kaiser himself could have foreseen. As the Nazis race to identify and eliminate the agent, the threads of history conspire with the recklessness of the heart to dumbfound them.
