EXCLUSIVE: Michelle Rodriguez (Quick & Livid franchise) and Richard Gere (The Company) are set to star in aircraft survival thriller Left Seat, we are able to reveal.
The synopsis reads: “When a touring pharmaceutical rep (Rodriguez) is pressured to take management of a small constitution aircraft after the pilot falls unconscious mid-flight, she should depend on the assistance of a stranger (Gere) over the radio, to navigate by way of lethal storms and land the plane earlier than the gasoline runs out.”
The movie will likely be directed by Ben Youthful (Bleed for This) from David M. Crabtree’s screenplay, with present revisions by Youthful. Anton is dealing with worldwide gross sales, and WME Unbiased will deal with North American gross sales, launching on the Marche du Movie.
Pic is being produced by longtime Mandalay President Jason Michael Berman underneath his new banner A/Vantage Photos. Berman’s credit from his decade plus run at Mandalay embrace Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest, which is premiering at this 12 months’s Cannes pageant, Ben Affleck’s Air and The Start Of A Nation. David M. Crabtree and Ben Youthful will even produce. Government-producing are Peter Guber for Mandalay Photos and Matthew Lindner and Jordan Moldo for A/Vantage Photos. A/Vantage Photos is offering financing.
Berman mentioned: “I’m thrilled to be bringing David M. Crabtree’s good screenplay to life, which is a visceral cinematic expertise that explores necessary themes of the human expertise with emotional depth. To have Ben Youthful directing and writing on the film will create probably the most genuine expertise doable for our viewers, as Ben is a pilot in actual life, in addition to an excellent filmmaker and screenwriter who creates films with unimaginable stress, together with coronary heart. And eventually, to be working with the terribly gifted actors Michelle Rodriguez and Richard Gere to convey Left Seat to the display is a dream come true.”
Rodriguez, additionally well-known for the Resident Evil and Machete franchises, has Quick X: Half 2 upcoming. Hollywood icon Gere presently stars in drama The Company and starred final 12 months in Paul Schrader’s Cannes title Oh, Canada with Uma Thurman and Jacob Elordi.
Rodriguez is repped by WME; Gere is repped by WME; Youthful is repped by CAA; Crabtree is repped by Administration 360.
