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EXCLUSIVE: Following his breakout pinch Warfare, which he and Alex Garland wrote and directed for A24, Ray Mendoza has recovered his adjacent characteristic task successful Blood On nan Promontory, a Western play he’s group to nonstop from a book by Evan Cooper.
Blood On nan Promontory finds 5 convicts shackled together by ft arsenic they effort to flight done nan mountains pursuing a convulsive train robbery.
Nina nan Bongiovi, Paul Hadad, Glenn Kleczkowski, and Mark Gillard are producing, pinch Danny Peykoff exec producing, and Peykoff’s Big Newport Studios arsenic nan accumulation company. WME Independent is handling sales.
A erstwhile Navy SEAL turned award-winning filmmaker, Mendoza and Garland’s Warfare is simply a critically acclaimed action play inspired by nan former’s combat experiences during his deployment to Iraq. Mendoza came to filmmaking aft deploying aggregate times successful work of nan United States arsenic a Navy SEAL, pinch his subject inheritance shaping not only his filmmaking aesthetic, but besides his committedness to telling human-forward stories rooted successful truth, adversity, and honor.
On nan episodic side, Mendoza has worked connected The Terminal List: Dark Wolf for Prime Video. He is represented by Underground and WME.
Cooper is repped by Range Media Partners and WME.
