Jimmy Henderson’s THE PREY Gets Killer New Artwork For Its Busan World Premiere
This 23rd installment of the Busan International Film Festival is just weeks away with some of its most rousing choice entries, specifically speaking: Jimmy Henderson’s latest action thriller outing, The Prey. Enter actor Gu Shang-Wai (Bloody Destiny) for his second starring role with a production inclusive for Henderson’s explicit intent to, among other things, bring him to the world stage – and with a badass gangster-lookin’ new poster to help achieve just that.
Henderson penned The Prey with Michael Hodgson and Kai Miller which sees Gu in the role of Xin, an undercop who lands in a remote jungle prison following a botched raid. For this, we further our cast a little more with actor Vithaya Pansringarm of The Last Executioner fame, now staking his claim as the corrupt prison warden host to a decades-old jungle game for hunters in which his own inmates are the targets themselves.
The ante is upped even moreso when our warden and his squad of sadistic huntsmen find themselves pitted against the Chinese governmemt who’ve managed to track down Xin’s location. As you might guess, Xin’s got some fightin’ to do if he wants to survive, and rest assured Henderson is willing to crank his latest follow-up from the 2017 smash hit, Jailbreak, up some several sizeable notches on the action.
The star of said film, Jean-Paul Ly takes a backseat to serve as action choreographer and ultimately reteaming with Henderson cohort, Jailbreak headliner Dara Our who will have a co-starring return to the screen as well. Cue all aforementioned explosive big scale stunts involving bikes, cars, cliffjumps, firefights and emmolations aside from the essential fight action Ly and his team had to put together in a robust time frame for the film’s limited shoot and you’ve pretty much received an ample plateful to dig into.
Busan attendees will get first dibs when the film screens on October 5, 6 and 10, after which the film heads to the 62nd installment of the BFI Film Festival. XYZ Films, home to such hard-hitting delights as Brawl In Cell Block 99, Pilgrimage, The Raid films, Beyond Skyline, Mandy and upcoming Apostle, is representing the film internationally.
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