the oak room

Andrew Mack over at Screen Anarchy broke some news last week on the production launch of dark new thriller, The Oak Room, reportedly filming in Burlington, Ontario near Toronto. The film is based on a Canadian stage play by Peter Genoway and hails from Black Fawn Films and Breakthrough Entertainment. Genoway penned the script with director Cody Calahan, and with a cast that lists RJ Mitte (Breaking Bad), Peter Outerbridge (Suicide Squad, V-Wars) and Ari Millen (Orphan Black, I’ll Take Your Dead). The film takes place during “a raging snowstorm when a drifter returns home to the blue-collar bar located in the remote Canadian town where he was born. When he offers to settle an old debt with a grizzled bartender by telling him a story, the night’s events quickly spin into a dark tale of mistaken identities, double crosses and shocking violence.” As the rest of the synopsis elucidates: […]

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