JACKDAW Revs Up With A First Look At Jamie Childs’ New Motocross Action Crime Thriller
Folks can currently get a first look at UK action thriller Jackdaw in the image above, directed by TV vet Jamie Childs (The Sandman, His Dark Materials). The pic is fully financed and repped by Anton for international sales this month at EFM, with a cast led by Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Jenna Coleman.
As Deadline’s Melanie Goodfellow reports, the Northern England-set thriller centers on “a former motocross champion and army veteran, now caring for his younger brother. Broke, he agrees to do an open water pick up of a mysterious illegal package in the North Sea. A resulting double cross and his brother’s disappearance set him and his old bike on a violent nocturnal odyssey through England’s northern rust belt.”
Jackdaw also stars Thomas Turgoose, Allan Mustafa and Rory McCann, along with Vivienne Acheampong, Joe Blakemore and Leon Harrop. Childs is also producing next to Anton’s Sebastian Raybaud and Callum Grant for Anton, and Kate Glover, with stunt sequences by Dave Judge and Ian Van Temperly.
Childs on Jackdaw:
“We see so many American films set in atmospheric towns that don’t tie themselves to local, kitchen-sink stories. I thought, why don’t we do this in Britain?,” he said.
“We set out to push the envelope of what was possible stylistically and tonally in the region. Its clash of pastoral and industrial worlds is the perfect setting for an exciting, pulpy chase thriller,” he said.
Read more at Deadline.
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