Child 44 takes Tom Hardy’s Leo Demidov on hunt for a serial child-killer

3:30 PM EST 1/8/2015

Child 44, the film adaptation of the 2008 thriller novel of the same name by British writer Tom Rob Smith, is scheduled to be released to US theaters on April 17. Directed by Daniel Espinosa from a screenplay penned by Richard Price based on Smith’s book, the movie follows the story of Leo Demidov, a disgraced Russian secret police officer in the 1950s’ Stalinist Russia who was framed for treason and who was sent to a remote outpost, where he uncovers a series of mysterious murders tied to a government conspiracy.Read more