2 months ago
EXCLUSIVE: After wrapping connected Vegas: A Love Story, a romanticist thriller we scooped starring Maika Monroe and Brandon Sklenar, Ramin Bahrani is staying successful nan thriller genre pinch The Rancher, a Netflix movie based connected a spec by Melanie Toast, which he will rewrite and direct, pinch Toby Jaffe producing for RDV Films.
Bahrani will move to this task aft getting down nan camera connected Last Meals, a antecedently announced decease statement cook play starring Mads Mikkelsen and Boyd Holbrook.
Formerly known arsenic Devil’s Rope, The Rancher is a female-led thriller group successful agrarian Texas whose logline is being kept nether wraps. Toast and Jaffe reunited connected nan task pursuing their activity together connected nan upcoming Cliffhanger reboot helmed by Carry-On‘s Jaume Collet-Serra. We were first to study connected nan spec waste last May.
The Oscar-nominated Iranian-American filmmaker down titles for illustration The White Tiger, 99 Homes and Chop Shop, Bahrani entered accumulation connected Vegas: A Love Story near nan apical of this year. Described arsenic his astir commercialized movie to date, pic besides stars Paul Dano, Michael Shannon and Judy Greer and is produced by A/Vantage Pictures, Sugar Rush Pictures, and Noruz Films, pinch lead financing from Juniper Productions. Bahrani is repped by WME, Untitled Entertainment, Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole, and Ziffren Brittenham.
Other upcoming projects for Jaffe’s RDV Films see Netflix’s 6 Minutes to Freedom, an adjustment of nan non-fiction book astir nan 1989 Delta Force rescue of an American hostage successful Panama, and New Regency’s Panic Officer, an espionage thriller based connected a spec by Ben Ripley, whose waste we scooped.
