EXCLUSIVE : Oscar nominee Stephanie Hsu ( Everything Everywhere All At Once ), Oscar nominee Guy Pearce ( The Brutalist ) and Emmy winner Hannah Waddingham ( Ted Lasso ) have been set to topline crime-thriller The Teller .

Ben Ripley’s directorial debut, from his own script, is being described by producers as in the vein of The Usual Suspects and The Town .

Altitude is handling international sales and will introduce the project to buyers in Cannes . CAA Media Finance and Verve Ventures will handle domestic rights.

Set in San Francisco, the movie “will tell the story of Violet, an overlooked bank teller whose life takes a turn when a rogue FBI agent manipulates her into robbing her own bank, but the heist is just the opening move in a much bigger con.”

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Ripley is best known for the sci-fi action-thriller Source Code , starring Jake Gyllenhaal and directed by Duncan Jones. That film was conceived as an original spec script that Ripley wrote.…