Film duo Robert Samuels and Robert Jefferson are still claiming their accolades at festivals with the recent premieres of kung fu thriller, Shadow Fist 3. As folks await its online release, the channel is currently hosting the release of Blackout, directed by the pair in their latest offering from the R4 Films L.L.C. banner, joined by VCB Films.
An amnesiac black ops agent/black bag courier is in for the fight of his life as he struggles to survive waves of assassins bent on stopping him from removing an apocalypse-level chemical compound from his own blood. With time running out, can he make it across the border before it’s too late? If so can he retrace his steps and truly reclaim his own identity?
Director Scott Waugh has developed quite the audience for himself with the 2012 the Act Of Valor, and last year’s game adaptation, Need For Speed, details and specifics notwithstanding. That stated, it was enough for him to keep getting gigs, now including the new action thriller, Blackout, from Sierra Affinity.
Deadline reports that Waugh will be at the helm with a script by Sidney King and tweaks by Brooks McLaren, which focuses on a cop who is put to the ultimate test when the city loses power as he’s transporting a mysterious criminal. Broken Road is also joining the company in producing the film with Sierra/Affinity’s own Kelly McCormick overseeing the production for the company which is also backing its latest production, The Coldest City, in Budapest with David Leitch at the helm.
Waugh is also on board with Thunder Road and Fundamental Films’s own military drama, Outlaws, Inc. from writer and Banshee co-creator David Schickler as of September.
Stay tuned!