Variety says Ray Winstone will replace Robert De Niro in Edge of Darkness, starring alongside Mel Gibson in the Martin Campbell-directed drama produced by Graham King’s GK Films.
Winstone is negotiating to play an operative sent to clean up evidence in the murder of a woman. Gibson plays her detective father, who wants answers after his daughter is shot on his doorstep.
Danny Huston, Shawn Roberts and Bojana Novakovic also star. The film is based on the Campbell-directed 1985 BBC miniseries.
Shooting began in Massachusetts on Aug. 18.
