Ethan Hawke is staying busy, adding yet another project to a growing slate.
Production Weekly reports that Hawke is in talks to star in “The Numbers Station,” from relatively unknown screenwriter Scott Frazier. This may not be Frazier’s first script but it appears to be his first sale. Story details are super sparse, but ever-trusty resource Wikipedia tells us numbers stations are “shortwave radio stations of uncertain origin. They generally broadcast artificially generated voices reading streams of numbers, words, letters (sometimes using a spelling alphabet), tunes or Morse code.” Hmm, could be a sci-fi-ish thriller with a crime drama edge, but that’s just a shot in the dark. It is after all described as a “contained action thriller,” so maybe not.
Either way, it seems like a good fit for Hawke, who has Michael Almereyda’s (who directed Hawke in 2000s “Hamlet”) ensemble drama “Tonight At Noon” and Pawel Pawlikowski’s thriller “The Woman In The Fifth” coming up. He last appeared in “Brooklyn’s Finest,” which we called Antoine Fuqua’s finest work to date.