Drew Pearce will reunite with Hotel Artemis co-star Dave Bautista for Cooler, a new action thriller out of FilmNation Entertainment’s new Infrared production label which films in Summer of 2023. The film is the first title to emerge in a first-look deal etched out a few weeks ago between Infrared and Bautista’s Dogbone Entertainment banner.
Cooler “follows a South Beach bouncer Ray Sagona, played by Bautista, who is on the brink of finding redemption and getting his family back. But when a drug-filled safe is stolen from the club he works at, Ray is blackmailed into finding it before the Miami PD narcotics bureau comes to retrieve it on Sunday night. Now, as his past and present collide in ever-more dangerous ways, Ray must survive an epic 36-hour odyssey across Miami Beach to get that safe back… one final Herculean task on his journey towards absolution.”
Pearce will direct from his own script and will produce via his Point Of No Return alongside Dogbone’s Bautista, and with Drake, Future the Prince, and Jonathan Meisner, and Infrared’s Drew Simon and Sam Speiser. Point Of No Return’s Ian Fisher and Toby Harvard are exec producing.
Bautista will next appear in M. Night Shyamalan’s Knock At The Cabin in February 2023 from Universal Pictures, in addition to Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 in the following May, and Warner Bros.’ Dune: Part Two six months later.
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