BLUEFLY: Russell Crowe And Priyanka Chopra Jonas Sci-Fi Actioner Adds Michael Chiklis As Highland Nabs Multiple Territories
Credits L-R: Christian Witkin; Nicholas Gerardin; Brian Bowen Smith
Production is currently underway in Queensland, Australia for sci-fi action thriller Bluefly, as world sales outfit Highland Film Group has locked distribution deals in key international territories in all media for the new film. The news comes as Emmy and Golden Globe-winner Michael Chiklis (The Mongoose, FX’s “The Shield”) joins Russell Crowe (Nuremberg, upcoming Highlander) and Priyanka Chopra Jonas (Netflix’s The White Tiger, Prime Video’s The Bluff) following their additions per Deadline’s Andreas Wiseman back in August.
Here is the logline: When a high-tech military aircraft vanishes in the Congo, a U.S. special-ops unit is deployed to recover it and eliminate any evidence. Joining the covert mission are Benny (Crowe), an enigmatic former pilot with a troubled past, and U.N. interpreter Myla Reese (Chopra Jonas), whose knowledge of the region is essential to the operation. Under the leadership of U.S. government operative John Broyles (Chiklis), the team pushes upriver into militia-held territory, battling their way through a war-torn region overrun by mercenaries and oil pirates. But as they close in on the aircraft, reality begins to fracture under the influence of a powerful force hidden deep within the jungle. Myla soon suspects that Benny knows far more about this mysterious threat than he’s willing to reveal. Whatever is waiting for them, they were never meant to bring it home.
Nimród Antal (Predators, “Stranger Things”) is directing from a screenplay by David Frigerio (Beast, Land of Bad), William Eubank (Underwater, The Signal) and Carlyle Eubank (Broke, Muzzle). Polite Society’s Michael Jefferson is producing the film next to the aforementioned Frigerio alongside RuthAnne Frigerio for Broken Open Pictures, as well as Deborah Glover for G2 Dispatch, Arianne Fraser and Delphine Perrier for Highland Film Group, Vanessa Yao Guo and Petr Jákl. Lia Buman, Guy Davies, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Jason Kringstein, Katie Leary, Scott Levenson and James Norbury are exec producing.
Highland Film Group is handling worldwide rights to Bluefly which is supported by the Australian Government through the Location Offset, the Queensland Government through Screen Queensland’s Production Attraction Strategy, and Local Government through the Gold Coast Film Commission and Invest Gold Coast’s Screen Attraction Program.
Rights to Bluefly have so far been acquired by Amazon for Germany, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Benelux, Switzerland, Scandinavia, Australia/New Zealand, and Canada; Blitz Film for Ex-Yugoslavia; Media Squad for Hungary; Monolith Films for Poland; Karpat Media for Romania; California Filmes for Latin America; and Picture Works for India and airline rights.
Chiklis is repped by Entertainment 360 , UTA, Vision PR and Ziffren Brittenham; Crowe is repped by Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Goodman Genow; Chopra Jonas is repped by UTA and A-Series; Antal is repped by Range Media Partners; William Eubank is repped by Anonymous Content and CAA; Carlyle Eubank is repped by Atlas Literary.
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