Naomi Watts to star in thriller 'The Wolf Hour'

Los Angeles: Actor Naomi Watts has been roped in to star in psychological thriller "The Wolf Hour".

The movie is written and directed by Alistair Banks Griffin, reported Deadline.

The film will soon go into production in New York.

The story revolves around June Leigh (Watts), a cultural icon and activist during the 1960s, now fallen from grace and a shell of her former self. An unseen tormentor begins exploiting her weaknesses and she must face her demons at the height of one of the darkest points in New York history: the summer of the the Son of Sam murders.

Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Bailey Conway Anglewicz from Automatik will produce the project with Bradley Pilz.