Action pic
'Thunder Run' to start filming this summer
Freedom Films have announced
that VFX production has started for 3-D action-thriller Thunder Run and that
principal photography kicks off this summer. The Simon West-directed film will
star Gerard Butler, Sam Worthington and Matthew McConaughey. Here's the
announcement:
Freedom Films CEO, Brian
Presley is proud to announce the closing of a substantial domestic P&A
financing arrangement days prior to Cannes for the CG 3-D action thriller
“Thunder Run.” The film will be co-financed by Presley’s Freedom Films and CEO
Fred Malmburg’s company, Paradox Entertainment with Gerard Butler, Sam
Worthington and Matthew McConaughey starring. Ashok Amritraj’s Hyde Park
International is handling sales at Cannes during the upcoming Marche du Film.
VFX production has
already begun on the CG 3-D film with principal photography set to begin this
Summer. Presley is producing alongside Jib Polhemus of The Graphic Film
Company, with Simon West directing. “Thunder Run,” is an all CG 3-D action
thriller based on the non-fiction book “Thunder Run - The Armored Strike to
Capture Baghdad,” by Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent David Zucchino.
Adapting the story for the screen are Academy Award-winner Robert Port and Ken
Nolan, screenwriter of “Black Hawk Down.”
“Thunder Run” is the
untold story of the dangerous and bloody capture of Baghdad by American Forces
at the onset of the Iraq War. In April 2003, three battalions and fewer than a
thousand men launched a violent thrust of tanks and Bradley Fighting Vehicles
into the heart of a city of five million, igniting a three-day blitzkrieg,
which military professionals often refer to as a lightning strike, or “thunder
run.” In telling the story of the surprise assault on Baghdad--one of the most
decisive battles in recent American combat history--this movie paints the
harrowing picture of the soldiers on the front lines and the realities of
modern warfare.
Freedom Films
is represented by Jay Cohen of the Gersh Agency.
Source: Coming Soon
Also reported
by Variety
Update on 'White House Taken' (previously titled 'Olympus Has Fallen')
Roland Emmerich's White House Down will roll out in theatres on Nov. 1, 2013 -- the date previously held by the director's sci-fi epic Singularity, which was halted in preproduction last year.
Singularity remains a priority project for Sony, but White House Down is further along, according to a studio spokesman.
White House was acquired by Sony based on a script by James Vanderbilt, who also penned this summer's The Amazing Spider-Man and Total Recall. Mythology Entertainment is producing.
The movie revolves around a paramilitary takeover of the White House. Emmerich (2012, The Day After Tomorrow) and Sony are in the process of casting.
White House will open opposite Ender's Game, based on the best-selling young-adult book series.
There is a rival project, however. Gerard Butler is set to star in White House Taken for Nu Image/Millennium Films (it previously was titled Olympus Has Fallen). Butler will play a former Secret Service agent called back to duty when terrorists overtake the White House.
Millennium
will be shopping White House Taken at the upcoming Cannes Film Market. It
doesn't have a domestic distribution deal yet.
Source: HollywoodReporter
Source: HollywoodReporter
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