Halle Berry Starring in ‘The President is Missing’

Halle Berry attends the European Gala Screening for Amazons: ‘Crime 101’ at Odeon Luxe Leicester Square on January 28, 2026 in London, England. ‘Crime 101’ is in cinemas on February 13th. Photo by Tristan Fewings/Getty Images for Amazon MGM Studios and Sony Pictures Entertainment.

Preview:

Halle Berry is attached to a variety of new projects.
She has a political thriller and more in the works.
The work will be in movies and TV.

Halle Berry is someone you always assume is booked and busy –– she has ‘Crime 101’, for example, due in cinemas next week –– but Deadline brings word that she’s making moves to ensure that she’ll have projects to work on for a while to come.

Via HalleHolly, the company she runs with Holly Jeter, Berry has a raft of movies and TV shows in development, including a gender-swapped adaptation of Bill Clinton and James Patterson’s legal thriller ‘The President in Missing.’

And that’s just the tip of the development iceberg for the actor, who has a variety of other movie and TV deals in the works. Get more details below…

What’s the story of ‘The President is Missing’?

Halle Berry arrives on the red carpet of the 97th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025. Credit/Provider: Heather Swift / The Academy. Copyright: ©A.M.P.A.S.

Adapted into script form by Nicole Perlman (‘Guardians of the Galaxy’) and David Chasteen (‘CIA’), it sees a terrorist threatens an attack so lethal it will return the United States to the dark ages.

The only person who can stop him is President Joanna Duncan (Berry) — but first she has to elude her own secret service and escape the confines of the White House in a gambit to save the world single-handedly. It’s set up at Apple Original Films.

What else does Halle Berry have in development?

Halle Berry stars in ‘Crime 101’. Photo Credit: Merrick Morton.

Alongside the thriller, Berry is attached to star in ‘Fleur’ from writer/director Ellie Foumbi, which is in pre-production and set to shoot in Paris next month. She’ll play an American housewife who flees to the French capital and starts a life as a dominatrix and elite escort.

On the TV front, she has Peacock’s ‘Zero F***s’, about menopausal best friends, potential HBO medical thriller ‘The Patient’ and ‘Mother Doom’ at FX, which would see her as a retired Special Forces operative on a vengeful mission.

Halle Berry arrives on the red carpet of the 97th Oscars® at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 2, 2025. Credit/Provider: Etienne Laurent / The Academy. Copyright: ©A.M.P.A.S.