Overview
- The casting was announced on June 10, 2026, naming Josh Hartnett as the lead with Michael Douglas, Willem Dafoe, Ellen Barkin, Homer Gere and Yvonne Chapman added to the ensemble.
- Coverage differs on production status with Variety, The Playlist and PerthNow reporting that principal photography quietly wrapped after shoots in Europe and Asia while Deadline used press‑release language saying photography is commencing.
- Fernando Sulichin’s New Element Media is producing the film alongside Maximilien Arvelaiz and Jordan Gertner with Eagle Pictures executives Tarak Ben Ammar and Gianluca Leurini and financiers James Packer and Jose Luis Manzano attached.
- Stone wrote and directed White Lies, which is described in press materials as an intimate drama about family, loss and rediscovery that follows Jack Freeman, a man repeating his parents’ mistakes who begins a personal journey of change.
- The film is Stone’s first narrative feature since 2016’s Snowden, it reunites him with actors from his earlier career and no release date or distributor has yet been announced.