Sam Worthington joins Kevin Hart in heist thriller 'Lift'

'Avatar' star Sam Worthington has boarded the cast of actor-comedian Kevin Hart-led heist thriller movie 'Lift'. The film also features actors Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Vincent D'Onofrio, Billy Magnussen, Ursula Corbero,

Yun Jee Kim

,

Viveik Kalra

, Paul Anderson, Burn Gorman, Jean Reno and Jacob Batalon.

According to reports, filmmaker F Gary Gray will direct the movie from a script penned by Dan Kunka and

Jeremy Doner

.


The story centres on Hart's master thief who is wooed by his ex-girlfriend and the FBI to pull off an impossible heist with his international crew on a 777 flying from London to Zurich.

Gray, Brent O'Connor and

Patricia Braga

are executive producing.