Jude Law said his new crime thriller, “The Order,” about the FBI investigation into a neo-Nazi terrorist group in the 1980s, “needed to be made now.”
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At a press conference at the Venice Film Festival, Law spoke about the film's importance at a time of resurgence of far-right ideologies.
"Unfortunately, the relevance speaks for itself," he continued. "It felt like a piece that needed to be done now. It's always interesting to find a piece from the past that has a relevant relationship to the present."
Based on true events, the film is set in 1983 Idaho and follows a lone FBI agent (Law) as he commits a series of increasingly violent bank robberies and car thefts only to realize that they are the work of a group of dangerous domestic neo-Nazi terrorists, inspired by radical leader Robert Jay Mathews (Nicholas Hoult), who are plotting a war against the U.S. government. Based on the 1989 book "The Silent Brotherhood" by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt, the film also stars Tye Sheridan, Jurnee Smollett, Alison Oliver and Odessa Young.
