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William Francis Nighy (born 12 December 1949) is an English actor. Known for his work on screen and stage, he has received numerous awards, including two BAFTA Awards, a Golden Globe Award and nominations for an Academy Award and a Tony Award. Nighy started his career with the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool and made his London debut with the Royal National Theatre starting with The Illuminatus! in 1977. There he gained acclaim for his roles in David Hare's Pravda in 1985, Harold Pinter's Betrayal in 1991, Tom Stoppard's Arcadia in 1993, and Anton Chekov's The Seagull in 1994. He received a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor nomination for his performance in Blue/Orange in 2001. He made his Broadway debut in Hare's The Vertical Hour in 2006, and returned in the 2015 revival of Hare's Skylight earning a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play nomination. Early film roles include in the comedies Still Crazy (1998), and Blow Dry (1999) before his breakout role in Love Actually (2003) which earned him a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor. He soon gained recognition portraying Davy Jones in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series (2006-2007), and Viktor in the Underworld film series (2003-2009). Other films include Shaun of the Dead (2004), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), The Constant Gardener (2005), Notes on a Scandal (2006), Hot Fuzz (2007), Valkyrie (2008), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010), The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012), About Time (2013), Emma (2020), and Living (2022), the last of these earning him his first career Academy Award nomination. Nighy has gained acclaim for his roles in television earning a British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for his performance in BBC One series State of Play (2003), and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for the BBC film Gideon's Daughter (2007). He's also known for his roles in HBO's The Girl in the Café (2006) and PBS's Page Eight (2012).
ORIGINAL SYNOPSIS: Two young college students working on a technological project suddenly results in a freak accident when an electric entity that is sparked in the machine causes the male and female to switch bodies in the process. Realizing that they only have a few days before they are stuck in different bodies for the rest of their lives, the two students are forced to repair the machine and figure out a way to repair the machine while also living each other's lives and diminish their hatred towards each other, while also dealing with a mysterious man behind the accident that may also be connected to repairing the machine and getting their bodies back for good. NEW PLOT: In 2028, Dr. Carlton Shawver created a piece of technology that ended up changing the world: a machine that allows multiple people to switch bodies. As the years go by, the technology ends up proving itself to be useful and successful. That is, until Shawver is executed by a group of terrorists who wish to claim the tech as their own and use it for their own nefarious needs. One of the people forced into recruitment for them is Shawver's college-aged son Kyle. Kyle switches bodies with a young independent journalist named Christine West, daughter of Shawver's deceased former colleague Stacia. Kyle, as West, has to complete several dangerous missions for them, and if he/she fails any one of them, he/she will no longer be able to switch back to their normal bodies. He/she also struggles trying to juggle succeeding in his/her missions with conceiving a secret plot to take down the terrorists and claim the technology from them to bring the world back to peace.
