Ben Kingsley and Josh Hutcherson join ‘Backstabbing for Beginners’

Per Fly is the director of the political thriller Backstabbing for Beginners and he picked up two solid actors to star.

Variety reported that both Ben Kingsley and Josh Hutcherson will star in the film and filming will begin in January.

Hutcherson plays a man who is employed at his dream job, the U.N.’s Oil for Food Program, as a program coordinator. He is thrown into a post Iraq war mess as countries are fighting for the oil reserves. Kingsley will play his boss and the one person he can trust, or can he?

Kingsley’s character may be part of a conspiracy that Hutcherson has to uncover. The job comes with risks that fall on both Hutcherson's character's life, his mentor's own career, and it also could impact the life of the character's love interest, a Kurdish woman.

Deadline reports that Fortune International will start pre-sale tickets at the American Film Market next week. Kingsley and Hutcherson are also serving as executive producers. Kingsley is currently in theaters in Robert Zemeckis’ The Walk while Disney’s The Jungle Book and Terrence Malick’s Knight Of Cups are set to be released soon. Hutcherson will next be seen in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 in November.