Damascus Cover teaser: How to watch exclusive John Hurt and Jonathan Rhys Meyers clip

Damascus Cover centres on Ari Ben-Zion (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), an Israeli spy haunted by the death of his son.

John Hurt stars in the spy thriller in his final ever role as Ari’s handler, Miki.

The two star in the exclusive clip now showing only at Express.co.uk which you can watch right here.

The Damascus Cover clip shows Ari planning his escape, running himself through the protocol of how to extract himself from this life-threatening situation.

As Ari sits in a taxi, zooming through the streets of Damascus, John Hurt’s voice can be heard giving Ari advice.

Hurt speaks in his unmistakeable gruffness, a softness beneath the growl, as he reiterates the plan for Ari to contact someone who will help get him out of Damascus alive.

“Go to him, but only if your life is in danger. I’m not losing another agent,” Hurt’s Miki says.

The cast also includes Olivia Thirlby (Juno, Dredd), Navid Negahban (Homeland, American Sniper) and Jurgen Prochnow (Das Boot, Dune).

Damascus Cover premiered on September 23, 2017, at the Boston Film Festival to acclaim.

Since then, the spy-thriller has garnered several awards including the best actor award for Jonathan Rhys Meyers.

After a failed attempt to bring a mole back to Israel alive, Zion is recalled to Jerusalem.

Now unsure how many of their operatives have been exposed, Mossad tasks Ari with smuggling a chemical weapons scientist out of Syria.

Ari is, however, lonely and while in Damascus he meets Kim (Thirlby), a young American photographer who offers him some company.

However, it is a spy thriller and within days of Ari’s arrival, the mission goes wrong.

The novel based thriller was dedicated to John Hurt and will be released in the UK on Friday, August 3, 2018.

Fans wanting a bit more insight into the action can attend a special screening at the Rio Cinema in Dalston, London featuring a Q&A with Jonathan Rhys Meyers and director Daniel Berk.

The special screening is on July 31, 2018.