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EXCLUSIVE: Stephen Dorff (True Detective) and Kevin Dillon (Entourage) are group to prima successful Red Stick Hoods, a Southern crime thriller launching income astatine Cannes pinch Iuvit Media Sales.
Set successful Baton Rouge’s neon-lit underworld, Red Stick Hoods follows a seasoned criminal and his volatile young partner arsenic a regular occupation spirals into a convulsive concatenation guidance neither tin control.
Lance Kawas (Good Thief, Boneyard) will nonstop and produce, pinch accumulation getting underway this fall. Marking nan first original screenplay by crime novelist Victor Gischler (Fast Charlie), nan movie was packaged by HBK F.C.’s Hicham Benkirane (Murder City), who is exec producing alongside Ahmed Boomrod and Iuvit’s Max Czertok.
“For me, Red Stick Hoods is yet astir loyalty and nan costs of breaking nan rules successful a world that doesn’t forgive mistakes,” Kawas said. “It’s a character-driven crime communicative built astir a analyzable relationship, and my extremity is to bring that to life successful a measurement that feels grounded, tense and emotionally real.”
Czertok added, “At Iuvit, we’re excited to correspond Red Stick Hoods, a tense, character-driven action thriller pinch clear world appeal.”
For Dorff, different upcoming projects see Lear Rex other Al Pacino and Jessica Chastain, and Brad Furman’s People Not Places other Shirley MacLaine. He is repped by Mosaic and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.
Dillon was precocious successful Reagan pinch Dennis Quaid and stars successful nan upcoming action thriller Complex, Texas. He is repped by Buchwald, Gallant Management, and Sloan, Offer, Weber & Dern.
Iuvit’s Cannes slate besides includes April X starring Lilly Krug and Connor Storrie, Knight Fighter starring Daniel Stisen, Station Break starring Billy Burke, and nan sci-fi action titles Screamers and Tug of War.
Gischler is repped by David Hale Smith Literary.
