Safe House is an upcoming action

Action film

Action film is a film genre where one or more heroes is thrust into a series of challenges that require physical feats, extended fights and frenetic chases...

 thriller film directed by Daniel Espinosa

Daniel Espinosa

Jorge Daniel Espinosa is a Swedish film director from Trångsund, Stockholm. He attended the National Film School of Denmark and graduated in 2001. His third feature film, Easy Money, was the Swedish film with most admissions in Sweden in 2010.-Filmography: I Country of the majority production...

, starring Denzel Washington

Denzel Washington

Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. is an American actor, screenwriter, director, and film producer. He first rose to prominence when he joined the cast of the medical drama, St. Elsewhere, playing Dr...

 and Ryan Reynolds

Ryan Reynolds

Ryan Rodney Reynolds is a Canadian film and television actor, best known for his roles in such films as National Lampoon's Van Wilder, Waiting..., The Amityville Horror, Just Friends, Definitely, Maybe, The Proposal, Buried, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and Green Lantern.One of his best known...

. It is set for release on February 10, 2012 in North America

North America

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 by Universal Pictures

Universal Pictures

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. Filming took place in Cape Town

Cape Town

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, South Africa

South Africa

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. , the film is in post-production.

Plot

When a group of rebel soldiers from the neighboring region destroy a CIA-operated safe house

Safe house

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, the facility's young house-sitter must work to move the criminal who's being hidden there to another secure location.

Cast

• Denzel Washington
  Denzel Washington
  Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. is an American actor, screenwriter, director, and film producer. He first rose to prominence when he joined the cast of the medical drama, St. Elsewhere, playing Dr...
  
   as Tobin Frost
• Ryan Reynolds
  Ryan Reynolds
  Ryan Rodney Reynolds is a Canadian film and television actor, best known for his roles in such films as National Lampoon's Van Wilder, Waiting..., The Amityville Horror, Just Friends, Definitely, Maybe, The Proposal, Buried, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and Green Lantern.One of his best known...
  
   as Matt Weston
• Sebastian Roché
  Sebastian Roché
  - Early life :Roché was born in Paris, France, on August 4, 1964; he is of Scottish and French ancestry. He is also fluent in four languages: English, French, Spanish and Italian. On General Hospital, he spoke in Russian, Spanish and French, and on the pilot episode of Odyssey 5, he spoke in French...
  
   as Heissler
• Brendan Gleeson
  Brendan Gleeson
  Brendan Gleeson is an Irish actor. His best-known films include Braveheart, Gangs of New York, In Bruges, 28 Days Later, the Harry Potter films, The Guard and the role of Michael Collins in The Treaty...
  
  
• Robert Patrick
  Robert Patrick
  Robert Hammond Patrick, Jr. is an American actor, known for his leading and supporting roles in a number of films and television shows....
  
  
• Sam Shepard
  Sam Shepard
  Sam Shepard is an American playwright, actor, and television and film director. He is the author of several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child...
  
  
• Liam Cunningham
• Rubén Blades
  Rubén Blades
  Rubén Blades Bellido de Luna is a Panamanian salsa singer, songwriter, lawyer, actor, Latin jazz musician, and politician, performing musically most often in the Afro-Cuban and Latin jazz genres...
  
  
• Vera Farmiga
  Vera Farmiga
  Vera Ann Farmiga is an American actress and director. Farmiga made her film debut in the 1998 drama thriller Return to Paradise. This was followed by supporting roles in the 2000 romantic film Autumn in New York and the 2001 television series UC: Undercover...