EXCLUSIVE: Fresh disconnected James Cameron’s $1.5BN-grossing Avatar: Fire and Ash, co-stars Stephen Lang and Sam Worthington are reteaming connected crime-thriller Eyes Along The Way, connected which they’re joined by Luke Bracey (Hacksaw Ridge).
Kriv Stenders (Danger Close) is directing pinch Architect launching worldwide income up of Cannes.
The movie besides re-teams Hacksaw Ridge co-stars Worthington and Bracey — who wrote nan screenplay pinch Johnny McCoy and Timothy Burnett — pinch head Kriv Stenders, and producers John and Michael Schwarz, pursuing their Vietnam warfare action epic Danger Close.
Worthington and Bracey “star arsenic Pollock and McArthur, 2 tenacious seasoned detectives successful 1950s Australia. United by a bid of missing personification cases, they’re led to a vast, sprawling and distant ranch successful nan distant Outback. Isolated, retired connected a limb, and each struggling pinch their ain demons, nan partners unwittingly stumble into a spider’s web: a highly intelligent, resourceful and implacable serial slayer (Lang), himself scarred by warfare and hidden undiscovered for decades, is remorselessly stalking them. The hunters person go nan hunted.”
The movie is owed to sprout connected location successful New South Wales, Australia, astatine a day to beryllium confirmed.
John Schwarz and Michael Schwarz nutrient for Deeper Water Films (Gold), together pinch Timothy Burnett and Erin Moy for Entropico (Onefour: Against All Odds), and Luke Bracey. Natalie Coleman is executive producing.
Sydney’s Spectrum Films are handling station production. Heads of section see head of photography Thomaz Labanca (Beast), accumulation designer Sam Hobbs (Beast), sound designer Sam Hayward (EPiC: Elvis Presley successful Concert) and editor Veronika Jenet (The Piano).
In summation to Danger Close, Stenders is champion known for his deed Red Dog franchise, nan first instalment of which is Australia’s eighth highest-grossing movie of each time. He besides directed The Correspondent, starring Richard Roxburgh, ABC bid Jack Irish, starring Guy Pearce, and Kill Me Three Times, starring Simon Pegg and Teresa Palmer, which premiered astatine TIFF.
Architect’s Calum Gray said: “The movie drips ambiance and biology grandeur, pinch hugely memorable characters and an ever ratcheting tension. It will support audiences pinned to their seats . Lovers of constructed, intelligent thrillers will beryllium perfectly hooked.”
Kriv Stenders added: “I’m delighted to adhd nan supremely talented Stephen Lang, successful a wonderfully Machiavellian role, to our world people squad of Sam, Luke and John. The screenplay is simply a classical detective thriller – a taut, tense and atmospheric page turner punctuated pinch sequences of achromatic knuckle action – astir men pushed to their limits by an evil they tin hardly comprehend.”
Sam Worthington is repped by WME, Shanahan Management and Anonymous Content. Luke Bracey is repped by UTA and Fourward. Stephen Lang is repped by Innovative Artists.