EXCLUSIVE: Cliffhanger and Die Onerous 2 director Renny Harlin has been set to direct survival thriller Black Tides, impressed by real-life orca assaults which have occurred off the coast of southern Spain and Portugal.
Written by Chris Sparling (Buried) and Ángel Agudo (Prime Video’s Apocalypse Z), and produced by Adrián Guerra and Nuria Valls’s Nostromo Photos (Buried), the movie will inform the story of Rebecca, who reunites together with her estranged father, Invoice, in sunny Málaga anticipating a therapeutic household journey together with her younger son, Sebastian. As an alternative, their voyage throughout the Strait of Gibraltar turns into a nightmare as they’re relentlessly attacked by rogue orcas. Rebecca, confronting deep emotional wounds, should rise as an unlikely hero in a battle for survival.
The movie, which is because of shoot on the finish of the summer season, will likely be “shot old-school, with in-camera results and actual water work”.
The Answer Leisure Group handles worldwide gross sales, with Lisa Wilson set to launch the movie to consumers at Cannes.
Harlin, additionally recognized for Deep Blue Sea, most just lately directed field workplace hit The Strangers: Chapter 1 and has Nostromo-produced shark survival thriller Deep Water and The Strangers: Chapter 2 upcoming.
“This movie grabs you by the throat and the center,” stated the veteran filmmaker. “I’m going again to the sort of filmmaking I like—intense, bodily, and immersive. This one is constructed for the massive display screen.”
Producer Adrián Guerra stated: “We’re going again to what makes thrillers unforgettable—precision filmmaking, actual rigidity, and emotional weight. Each shot is designed to construct stress, each alternative anchored in character. Shot in actual circumstances, this can be a bodily, immersive expertise made for the cinema. It doesn’t simply entertain—it holds you in its grip.”
Adrián Guerra and Núria Valls’ Spanish movie and TV outfit Nostromo had their breakthrough success with Buried, starring Ryan Reynolds. Latest releases embody Netflix hit trilogy By way of My Window and Hen Field Barcelona, Prime’s video’s Apocalypse Z, and The Penguin Classes. Presently, Nostromo is filming the worldwide co-production Day Drinker, starring Madelyn Cline, Johnny Depp, and Penélope Cruz, whereas initiatives in post-production embody The Evening Supervisor season 2 and The Map That Results in You, directed by Lasse Hallström.
