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EXCLUSIVE: Roadside Attractions and Saban Films person teamed to get North American authorities to Rod Davis Lurie‘s (The Last Castle, The Contender, The Outpost) WWII action thriller Lucky Strike.
Lucky Strike will unfastened successful theatres June 26.
Pic stars Scott Eastwood (The Outpost, Fury), Golden Globe and Emmy nominee Colin Hanks (A Beautiful Day successful nan Neighborhood, Band of Brothers), and Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor (King Richard, Exhibiting Forgiveness). Taylor John Smith (Where nan Crawdads Sing, Sharp Objects, The Outpost) rounds retired nan main cast.
The task reteams Lurie, a West Point alum, Millennium Media’s President Jonathan Younger, shaper Frydman and Eastwood pursuing their movie The Outpost. The woody was negotiated by Co-President of Roadside Attractions Howard Cohen, Co-President of Saban Films Jonathan Saba, President Jonathan Yunger and JJ Nugent connected behalf of Millennium and nan filmmakers.
Based connected investigation by co-writer and shaper Frydman, Lucky Strike follows 1 worker who is trapped down force lines during nan past awesome German violative during WWII, The Battle of nan Bulge. Armed only pinch his Motorola SCR-300 radio, a caller exertion only battle-ready adjacent nan extremity of nan war, he must usage his wits and spy trade to thwart nan advancing Nazi Panzer service and find his measurement backmost home.
Roadside Attractions Co-Presidents Howard Cohen and Eric d’Arbeloff commented, “Lucky Strike brings a thrilling caller position to World War II, pairing covert missions down force lines pinch breakthrough power exertion that whitethorn person shaped nan people of nan war. With Scott Eastwood astatine nan center, it’s a high-stakes communicative for some history buffs and action fans.”
Lurie added “With World War II, you person a definite caput start, don’t you? There is nary ambiguity successful nan righteousness of nan 2 sides. So, a filmmaker is required to fig retired what will service arsenic nan thematic spine of their film. In Lucky Strike we were ever asking not how we survive but alternatively why do we survive. John Castle’s journey, afloat of 1 existential calamity aft another, would situation immoderate human’s resolve. And yet his reply to that mobility supra is nan only point that tin perchance support him alive. All of america progressive successful this accumulation were damn proud to show this communicative of really specified a magnificent generation of Americans showed nan world nan principle of heroic survival.”
“Rod Lurie has a singular gift for placing audiences straight into nan power of battle, capturing nan soldier’s acquisition pinch unmatched authenticity. Lucky Strike is a visceral, emotionally resonant movie that reminds america of nan grit and ingenuity required to sphere our freedom,” said Jonathan Saba and Shanan Becker, Co-Presidents of Saban Films. As we observe America’s 250th anniversary, we are honored to coming a communicative that truthful powerfully pays tribute to nan resilience of nan American spirit.”
The characteristic is simply a Roadside Attractions and Saban Films position of a Millennium Media movie and a Perfection Hunter Production successful relation pinch BondIt Media Capital, Grobman Films and Orogen Entertainment. Producers are Frydman, Davis Lurie, Yunger, Les Weldon, and Yariv Lerner pinch Eastwood, Avi Lerner, Trevor Short, Lati Grobman, Anders Erdén, Blair Ward, Lauren Case, Del Mondor, Saba, Shanan Becker d’Arbeloff, Cohen, Matthew Helderman, Luke Taylor, Tyler Gould, Julie Kroll, JJ Nugent and Lonnie Ramati serving arsenic Executive Producers, and Sam Schulte and Matt Varosky arsenic Co-Producers.
