Gee Malik Linton will no longer be credited as director of Exposed, after claiming the film changed radically after re-editing

A thriller starring Keanu Reeves is being released with a directorial pseudonym after the film’s actual director asked for his name to be removed.

According to the New York Post’s Page Six, Gee Malik Linton, director of Exposed, will be credited as Declan Dale when the film comes out in January. Page Six report “sources” that claim Linton “disagreed with Reeves and studio Lionsgate Premiere over the project”.

The same sources assert the project was originally called Daughter of God, and “focused on a young Latina and a Dominican family ... There was a small white male role. It was a 60-percent Spanish-language movie.” When the film was picked up by Lionsgate, the studio allegedly demanded a re-edit to make the film “a boilerplate action thriller” with Reeves’ role greatly enhanced. The source claimed that Reeves “supervised” the new edit.

However, Page Six report that Reeves’ representative denied any suggestion that the actor was involved in any re-working of the film, saying: “Keanu Reeves did not supervise any of the editing.” Another source suggested that “the movie is the same film it always was. Keanu was never in the editing room.”