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Terrorist Thriller, CAPTURE, Sets Up At Thunder Road With ‘Small Town Crime’ Directors
Writing/directing sibling duo Ian and Eshom Nelms (Small Town Crime) are officially gearing up for Thunder Road Pictures’s latest, Capture. Mia Galuppo’s exclusive at The Hollywood Reporter broke the story which notes plot details that center on an ex-cop in a race against time to prove his innocence and put a stop to a looming wave of devastating terrorist attacks aimed at San Francisco. Albert Torres wrote the screenplay which was developed with Fermion Films. Thunder Road is producing the film with 3 Arts, and with Riverstone Entertainment financing the pic. The film hails as the fifth feature length outing for the Nelms brothers since debuting together on Squirrel Trap in 2004, and earning several festival nominations and wins on later films, including Lost On Purpose (2013) and Waffle Street (2015).
KILL OR BE KILLED: ‘John Wick’ Team To Tackle Image Comics Adaptation
Stunt veteran and second unit director-turned filmmaker Chad Stahelski has his plate full going into 2018. With John Wick: Chapter Three currently in pre-production and a reboot of sword-swinging immortal saga, Highlander, still cooking under the pen, Stahelski is reportedly attached to another project as of this week with word from The Hollywood Reporter on Ed Brubaker’s Sean Phillips-inked 2017 Image Comics publication, Kill Or Be Killed. The project tells of a depressed college student who attempts suicide. He survives due to unlikely events but is soon visited by a demon who explains that he was the one who spared the student’s life. But there’s a price to be paid: Going forward, the young man will be allowed to live one month for every person he kills. Stahelski is reteaming with John Wick franchise producer Basil Iwanyk who will produce Kill Or Be Killed with Erica Lee at Thunder Road along […]
SMOKE ON THE WATER Action Franchise In Development At Thunder Road
In a market largely saturated by superhero movies, you can never have too many original action film properties, and producer Basil Iwaynk has been responsible for a number of them coming from under his production banner at Thunder Road. Titles like The Town, John Wick and Sicario come to mind and with much acclaim, and so when you hear news of a new a project underway from these folks, it’s nice to know not to have to be too skeptical. As such, word has it exclusively from The Tracking Board that the company is preparing to launch the new action thriller franchise, Smoke On The Water. Ilwaynk, along with producer Kent Kubena picked up the script from I Still Know What You Did Last Summer scribe Trey Callaway and Ever After and Anna And The King writer Rick Parks, with a plot concept that pits the U.S. Coast Guard against an open water […]