THE BOOKIE & THE BRUISER: ‘The Gentleman’ Star Theo James Joins S. Craig Zahler’s 50s NYC Gangster Pic
Vince Vaughn also stars in the film.
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THE BOOKIE & THE BRUISER: Adrien Brody And Vince Vaughn Topline ‘Brawl In Cell Block 99’ Director’s New Gangster Thriller
Vince Vaughn is reteaming with Dragged Across Concrete and Brawl In Cell Block 99 director S. Craig Zahler on new gangster thriller The Bookie & the Bruiser. The film will also star Clean and Asteroid City actor Adrien Brody as production slates a late 2024 start date. The Bookie & the Bruiser has Zahler directing from his script which is set in 1959 New York City. The story centers on “a pensive, Jewish fellow named Rivner and an oversized Italian-American tough named Boscolo from the Lower East Side, both of whom served overseas in World War II and returned changed men who no longer fit inside the lives they’d left behind.” The logline adds, “Uninterested in taking orders from bosses or playing by the rules of polite society, the two friends partner up as a bookmaker and an enforcer and create an illicit gambling operation that proves to be very […]
THE BRIGANDS OF RATTLECREEK: Park Chan-Wook And S. Craig Zahler Pair Up For The Long-Gestating Revenge Western
S. Craig Zahler’s new crime thriller, Dragged Across Concrete, is currently making the rounds in theaters. For anyone keen on his work these days and just recently learning of his latest collab efforts with Park Chan-wook’s now-titled The Brigands Of Rattlecreek, it’s a clear-cut sign that this ought to be just the kind of crowdpleaser at festivals and for niche moviegoers. Collider broke the news this week of the film’s development since making The Black List in 2006 under a different title. Recently acquired by Amazon Studios with Bradley Fischer slated to produce and with Park on board since 2012, The Brigands of Rattlecreek, Park will direct from a script by Zahler which sets in an ultra-violent western tale about a sheriff and a doctor on a mission of vengeance against a gang of bandits who decide to use the cover of a torrential thunderstorm to rob and terrorize the […]
DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE: Mel Gibson Intends To Collect In The Official Trailer!
Director S. Craig Zahler is exactly the kind of director you’re looking for if you want a film that leaves a lasting impact. Last year’s head-stomping hit with Brawl In Cell Block 99 proved to be an entertainingly violent allegory on redemption from the Bone Tomahawk director and apart from any of the reviews stemming from its screening last year at Venice, his newest entry, Dragged Across Concrete, seemingly teases something that could almost be just as brutal and chilling, and just as soulful by way of its soundtrack. DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE follows two police detectives who find themselves suspended when a video of their strong-arm tactics is leaked to the media. With little money and no options, the embittered policemen descend into the criminal underworld and find more than they wanted waiting in the shadows. Summit Entertainment presents, a Unified Pictures production, a Cinestate production, in association with Look […]
BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99: Get Your Dukes Up For The New Trailer For The S. Craig Zahler Action Thriller
In a partnership so good that it’s spawned a second film together, the first pairing of Bone Tomahawk helmer S. Craig Zahler and actor Vince Vaughn is on deck for premieres in Venice and Toronto this season for Brawl In Cell Block 99. The official trailer finally unveiled on Tuesday with more info available at the official website for the upcoming Venice Film Festival which kicks off tomorrow. A former boxer named Bradley loses his job as an auto mechanic, and his troubled marriage is about to expire. At this crossroads in his life, he feels that he has no better option than to work for an old buddy as a drug courier. This vocation improves his situation until the terrible day that he finds himself in a gunfight between a group of police officers and his own ruthless allies. When the smoke clears, Bradley is badly hurt and thrown […]
BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99 Lands A U.S. October Release From RLJE Films
Bone Tomahawk helmer, novelist and acclaimed filmmaker S. Craig Zahler is currently filming his latest crime thriller, Dragged Across Concrete, starring Vince Vaughn and Mel Gibson. In the meantime, his newly completed actioner, Brawl In Cell Block 99 is well on its way with upcoming festival premieres in Venice and Toronto, as well as its forthcoming U.S. theatrical release on October 6, 2017 from RLJ Entertainment’s RLJE Films. Brawl In Cell Block 99 teams Zahler with Vaughn who plays Bradley, a down-and-out boxer at a crossroads with no job and a marriage nearing its end. When he finds work as a drug courier for an old friend, his respite good luck goes south in the wake of an explosive gun battle with cops and his own cohorts, injuring him and landing him in prison where he’ll be forced to commit acts of violence turn the facility into a savage battleground. […]
Johnson, Carpenter, White, Others Join DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE, Vancouver Shoot Underway
Director S. Craig Zahler isn’t too far off from the forthcoming TIFF Midnight Madness premiere of his recently-completed prison actioner, Brawl In Cell Block 99. In the meantime, you can expect to catch that film’s star, next to actor Mel Gibson in the new police brutality pic, Dragged Across Concrete, which is also conveniently being filmed in Vancouver as we speak. Zahler’s script is one with a pair of stories told with characters on opposite sides of the law; Gibson and Vaughn star on one half of that end in the respective roles of old guard policeman, Ridgeman, and volatile younger partner, Anthony, who find themselves suspended when a video of their strong-arming tactics becomes the media’s special du jour. Low on cash and with no other options, these two embittered soldiers descend into the criminal underworld to gain their just due. Details remain pending on the crux of the […]
S. Craig Zahler’s DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE Lands At Lionsgate Ahead Of July Shoot
Bloom has been on hand at the Marché du Film selling its slate, including Bone Tomahawk helmer S. Craig Zahler’s new crime thriller, Dragged Across Concrete. The film is reportedly slated to start production on July 17 in Vancouver and the word now is that Lionsgate has nabbed U.S. distribution rights with Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn starring. What bad things will good men do for their families? A stolid, old guard policeman, Ridgeman (Gibson) and his volatile younger partner, Anthony ( Vaughn), find themselves suspended when a video of them strong-arming a suspect becomes the media’s special du jour. Low on cash and with no other options, these two embittered soldiers descend into the criminal underworld to gain their just due. On the other side of the law, Henry Jones comes home from years in prison to find his mother and disabled brother living in squalor. The ex-convict needs […]
WRAITHS OF THE BROKEN LAND To Be Adapted By Ridley Scott For Fox
Filmmaker S. Craig Zahler is also a credited author of books; More relevantly, his 2013 publication, Wraiths Of The Broken Land and its 2010 predecessor, “A Congregation Of Jackals”, serve as noteworthy examples of his own inspiration preceding his 2015 horror Western, Bone Tomahawk. Such a vision has since landed Zahler in good favor with The Martian duo, writer Drew Goddard and director Ridley Scott who are reportedly reuniting once more for an adaptation of the aforementioned 2013 novel according to Deadline. 20th Century Fox has acquired the screen rights to the film which, inspired by the book, is set near the Mexican border where a group of men assemble for a perilous and tumultuous journey across the badlands to rescue their captive sisters from prostitution. The report also stated the film will contain elements of “horror, noir, and Asian ultra-violence”, although that portion was since omitted from the piece. […]
Vince Vaughn Cast In S. Craig Zahler's BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99
S. Craig Zahler, the director of the award-winning Western horror thriller, Bone Tomahawk was previously attached to direct MadRiver Pictures’s Breaking The Empire State back in January. If you’ve been tracking that project, then it looks like that one will have to wait a bit longer with news on a new action thriller set to go into production later this year. For this, we turn to actor Vince Vaughn whose recent stint in director Peter Billingsley’s father/daughter crime pic, Term Life opens in select theaters on April 29. The actor, most prominently known for comedy roles in films such as Wedding Crashers and The Watch will now continue his foray into action with Zahler’s own script in Brawl In Cell Block 99; Vaughn will star as a down-and-out former boxer and flailing auto mechanic whose last ditch effort to make some money at the behest of an old buddy and […]
S. Craig Zahler On Board To Helm BREAKING THE EMPIRE STATE
Blumhouse If you’re keen on award-winning director S. Craig Zahler’s searing new horror western directorial debut, Bone Tomahawk, then you’re just in time. As Tracking Board notes, Zahler is set to direct the new action thriller, Breaking The Empire State with Marc Butan (Triple 9) of MadRiver Pictures producing. Zahler will be penning the script centered on a special agent tasked with the one-man mission to infiltrate the Empire State Building and free its two-thousand hostages from its terrorist captors. The film will reportedly go into production following his current adaptation of his own 2014 crime literary, Mean Business On Ganson Street for Warner Bros.. Stay tuned for more info.
Zahler's BONE TOMAHAWK Gets U.S. Distribution Ahead Of Fantastic Fest
For fans of westerns and horrors, namely anything with actor Kurt Russell in it, the prospect of watching two Westerns come out in one year is simply amazing. This, with particular regard to the latest news regarding S. Craig Zahler‘s latest mid-19th century western horror flick, Bone Tomahawk, is worth noting as folks in Austin await the film’s first-wave premiere at Fantastic Fest later next month. The new film joins Russell – co-star of Quentin Tarantino’s own upcoming film, The Hateful Eight, with actors Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox and actress Jena Malone among its cast in the story of a crippled rancher who joins a team of gunmen to rescue his wife and other helpless settlers of Bright Hope from a band of cannibals. This sort of thing should be pleasing to the eye and very likely will be, and with that in mind, the trades are actually lending some good […]
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