HIGHLAND FILM GROUP LAUNCHING WORLDWIDE SALES AT TIFF
Global Icon Priyanka Chopra Jonas (The White Tiger, The Bluff, Heads of State) and Academy Award winner Russell Crowe (Nuremberg, upcoming Highlander) and are set to star in the sci-fi action thriller Bluefly, it was announced today. Directed by Nimród Antal (Predators, Stranger Things), Bluefly is written by David Frigerio (Beast, Land of Bad), William Eubank (Underwater, The Signal) and Carlyle Eubank (Broke, Muzzle).
The announcement comes on the heels of another major international project for Priyanka Chopra Jonas, who was recently announced opposite Orlando Bloom in the upcoming survival thriller Reset. Earlier this year, she headlined Prime Video’s The Bluff, which debuted at No. 1 worldwide, before sharing screen space with Idris Elba and John Cena in the global action-comedy Heads of State, which went on to become Prime Video’s fourth most-watched film. Continuing its successful run, Heads of State recently received a nomination for Outstanding Television Movie at the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards, while Priyanka earned an individual nomination for Best Actress in an Action Movie at the 2026 Critics Choice Super Awards for her lead performance as Ercell Bodden in The Bluff. She will next be seen in S.S. Rajamouli’s highly anticipated action-adventure epic Varanasi, slated for release on 7th April 2027.
The sci-fi action thriller is produced by Michael Jefferson for Polite Society, David Frigerio for Broken Open Pictures, Deborah Glover for G2 Dispatch, Arianne Fraser and Delphine Perrier for Highland Film Group, and Vanessa Yao Guo. The film is executive produced by Lia Buman, Guy Davies, RuthAnne Frigerio, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Jason Kringstein, Katie Leary, and Scott Levenson.
Highland Film Group is handling worldwide rights, launching sales at TIFF. Principal photography is set to begin later this year on Australia’s Gold Coast.
Set deep in the Congo, a grieving UN translator is pulled onto a black-ops mission to recover a downed aircraft that isn’t supposed to exist. As a Special Operations team pushes upriver through militia-held territory, the recovery becomes a descent — and the closer they get to the craft, the clearer it becomes that they were never meant to bring it home.
“We have a stellar cast led by Russell Crowe and Priyanka Chopra Jonas who will ignite the screen in this high-stakes, sci-fi thrill ride with layers of depth, akin to Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival,” said Highland Film Group CEO Arianne Fraser. “Bluefly is heart-pounding entertainment with a complex story full of unexpected twists. With Nimród Antal at the helm and our wonderful cast, we cannot wait to introduce this fantastic project to our global buyers,” added company COO Delphine Perrier.
“Bluefly is an intense, character-driven thriller wrapped inside a bold science-fiction premise,” said director Nimród Antal. “It’s the kind of film I live to make — grounded, propulsive, and full of dread — and I couldn’t ask for a better cast or team to bring it to the screen.”
Crowe is a three-time Academy Award nominee and won the Best Actor Oscar for Gladiator. He recently starred in Sony Pictures Classics’ Nuremberg and will next be seen in Netflix’s thriller Unabomber, Vertical’s The Weight, Walden Media’s thriller Billion Dollar Spy, and Amazon MGM’s highly anticipated reboot, Highlander.
Priyanka Chopra Jonas is an award-winning actor, producer and New York Times bestselling author. Through Purple Pebble Pictures, she has executive produced the Oscar-nominated short film Anuja (2025), the award-winning and Oscar-nominated feature documentary To Kill A Tiger (2024), and starred in and executive produced Netflix’s Oscar-nominated film The White Tiger (2021). She currently stars in Prime Video’s global spy thriller Citadel, alongside Stanley Tucci and Richard Madden.
