Jeremy Strong will star in “The Passenger,” a historical escape thriller from Magnus von Horn . FilmNation Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights, excluding German-speaking territories and Poland, to the film. This marks the English-language debut of von Horn, a Swedish and Polish director whose previous film, “The Girl with the Needle,” was nominated for the Academy Award for best international feature film. Strong was an Oscar nominee for his turn as Roy Cohn in “The Apprentice” and won an Emmy for his performance on “Succession” and a Tony for the 2024 revival of “An Enemy of the People.” His credits include “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere,” “The Gentlemen,” “The Trial of the Chicago 7” and “Armageddon Time.” Strong will next portray Facebook founder and Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg in “The Social Reckoning,” a follow-up to “The Social Network.” Popular on Variety The script for “The Passenger,” which von Horn co-wrote with Aleko Gotscheff, is based on the 1938 novel of…