Demian Bichir is joining forces with Mexican director Jorge Michel Grau on his upcoming film "7:19."

The new film is a suspense thriller set around the time of the 1985 earthquake in Mexico City. Bichir will play a politician, Martin Soriano, who is caught in the lobby of the building with night watchman Fernando Pellicer after nine stories come crashing down on them. Hector Bonilla, who is best known for his work on Azteca telenovelas in Mexico, will play the role of Pellicer in the film.

The movie will be written by Grau alongside novelist Alberto Chimal who is known of his short story "Estos son los dias;" that work was awarded the San Luis Potosí Fine Arts Award for Short Story, which is the most important short story accolade in all of Mexico.

Producers for the film include Mayra Espinosa Castro of Velarium Arts, Daniel Birman Ripstein of Alameda Films and Monica Lozano of Aebrije Cine and Video. Birman Ripstein was the producer of such films as "El Crimen del padre Amaro," "The Popcorn Chronicles" and "Daniel and Ana." Lozano has produced of 30 films including "Amores Perros," "Instructions not Included," "The Chosen," "Colosio: El asesinato," "Even the Rain" and "Internet Junkie" among others.

Grau is best known for his film "We Are What We Are," a horror movie about teenage cannibals that must take responsibility for the family chores when the patriarch of the family passes away. That film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2010.

For Bichir, "7:19" will be his first Spanish-speaking film since his Academy Award nominated turn in "A Better Life." Since that nomination in 2011, Bichir has appeared in a plethora of films and will next be seen in Quentin Tarantino's eighth movie, "The Hateful Eight." He is also set to appear in "Low Riders."