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EXCLUSIVE: Starboard Entertainment has acquired Wardcliffe, a pandemic thriller from writer-director David Ferino.
Starboard picked nan movie up astatine this year’s Cannes Market.
Inspired by existent events, Wardcliffe stars Joel McKinnon Miller (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) alongside Shane Coffey (Pretty Little Liars) and unfolds almost wholly wrong nan confines of a family location during nan early days of nan COVID pandemic.
The film’s synopsis reads: “Over nan people of a azygous day, decades of hostility escalate to a boiling constituent arsenic a begetter and boy quarantine together during nan 2020 pandemic lockdown.”
The movie marks nan characteristic directorial debut of Ferino, who besides served arsenic writer and editor connected nan project. Ferino precocious signed connected pinch Starboard to nonstop Attack of nan Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence, nan newest installment successful nan long-running cult franchise. Starring successful that movie are David Koechner, John Astin, Dan Bakkedahl, Catherine Corcoran, Paul Bates, Vernee Watson, and Eric Roberts.
“When I first heard of this news arena successful 2020, I knew it had nan correct criteria for a first feature,” Ferino said of Wardcliffe. “The movie could beryllium made connected a mini accumulation scale, but pinch large affectional weight. It’s a calamity that encapsulates nan heightened worry we collectively shared passim nan pandemic.”
Wardcliffe was produced and independently financed by Roger M. Mayer done Brooklyn Reptyle Productions. Mayer’s producing credits see Antibirth, starring Natasha Lyonne and Chloë Sevigny, and nan short LaZercism, directed by Shaka King and starring LaKeith Stanfield and Da’Vine Joy Randolph. Mayer is besides producing nan aforementioned Attack of nan Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence.
Executive producers connected Wardcliffe see Jenifer Ellis and Kevin Ragsdale. Jonathan Rosenblit is co-producer. Honey Anne Shively is subordinate shaper for Brooklyn Reptyle alongside Jake Bergman and Julie Mond. The film’s imaginative squad includes cinematographer Patrick Russo, accumulation designer Vanesa Liska, original people composer Max Lombardo, and further euphony by Braedon Speakman.
