Miles Teller (“Whiplash, “Prime Gun: Maverick”) and Casey Affleck (“Manchester By the Sea,” “Oppenheimer”) are set to guide the solid of pursuit thriller “Wild Sport.”
“Wild Sport” comes from Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director and producer Jason Corridor (“Thank You for Your Service,” “American Sniper”) and is being launched on the European Movie Market by Capstone. CAA Media Finance, Vary Choose and UTA Impartial Movie Group are co-representing home gross sales.
Tailored by Corridor from the best-selling novel of the identical title by Frank Bergon and primarily based on true occasions, “Wild Sport” follows Fish and Sport officer Jack Irigaray (Affleck) who joins a routine poacher arrest within the Black Rock Desert. However a lethal encounter with renegade Claude Dallas (Teller) shatters his actuality and propels him right into a relentless questfor vengeance — one which blurs the road between justice and obsession.
The thriller is being produced by two-time Oscar nominee Fred Berger (“A Full Unknown,” “La La Land”) and Brian Kavanaugh Jones (“Longlegs,” “The Bikeriders”) for Vary, alongside Corridor and Endurance’s Steve Richards. Teller and Affleck additionally function govt producers.
“I couldn’t be extra excited to be making this film with Casey and Miles, two phenomenal abilities who will get to go toe to toe with one another,” mentioned Corridor. “I’m grateful to be producing alongside the expertise of Fred Berger and the eagerness of Steve Richards – it’s a improbable workforce we’ve constructed.”
Added Teller, “I’m actually trying ahead to reuniting with Jason Corridor on ‘Wild Sport.’ We’ve had an awesome collaboration up to now on “Thank You for Your Service,” and I do know he’s going to deliver unimaginable depth to this story. Claude Dallas is such a fancy and layered character—powerful, relentless, and residing by his personal code. I can’t wait to get began with this workforce.”
The movie is anticipated to shoot this spring.
