Sam Riley, who stars in "Brighton Rock," which will have its world premiere Monday at the Toronto International Film Festival, is set to play British playwright Christopher "Kit" Marlowe in "
A Dead Man in Deptford."
The movie will play with the idea that Marlowe, a notorious bar room brawler, was also a royal spy for Elizabeth I and that his death in Deptford at age 29 may have been an assassination ordered by the English Secret Service.