Naomi Watts Joins 'Eastern Promises'


Naomi WattsNaomi Watts is set to star opposite Viggo Mortensen in Focus Features crime-flavored drama Eastern Promises, says the Hollywood Reporter.

The feature, helmed by Canadian director David Cronenberg, sees a 14-year-old girl die on Christmas giving birth in a London hospital. The hospital's midwife (Watts) sets out to find the girl's family for the orphaned child.

Her search takes her to London's shady Russian crime community and to a Russian crime boss (Mortensen) who is not what he seems.

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