Expect to see a lot of James McAvoy in 2013. The Scottish star is slated to hit theaters in five separate vehicles this year. He’s headlining opposite Jessica Chastain in Ned Benson’s two-part relationship drama The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: His and The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Hers. He’s playing a bad cop who is bigoted, bipolar and drug-fueled in the adaptation of Jon S. Baird’s crime novel Filth, and he plays a duplicitous but forgetful art auctioneer in Danny Boyle’s Trance. But first, McAvoy will hit to the big screen as a good cop looking to collar an elusive criminal in Eran Creevy’s Welcome to the Punch.

The original action-adventure penned by Creevy marks the London-born writer director’s follow-up to his 2008 debut Shifty. Welcome to the Punch posits McAvoy opposite always-stellar supporting player Mark Strong, who portrays Jacob Sternwood, the notorious aforementioned baddie who comes out of hiding to visit his ailing son in a London hospital. But just when officer Max Lewinsky thinks this case is closed, he discovers there’s more to it than he ever imagined, and he and Sternwood will need to team up. Check out the poster that features this distrustful duo below, courtesy of Empire:

via  – CinemaBlend