Two years after it was acquired by Briarcliff Leisure for North American distribution, Sovereign is premiering July 11.
Within the trailer for author/director Christian Swegal‘s true crime thriller, Nick Offerman and Jacob Tremblay star as Jerry Kane and his teenage son Joseph, who observe the Sovereign Citizen perception system, a deeply anti-establishment worldview rooted in mistrust of presidency authority.
Because the pair travels throughout the nation, delivering self-taught authorized seminars and pushing again in opposition to programs they consider have failed them, their journey brings them into battle with Police Chief Jim Bouchart (Dennis Quaid), setting off a tragic chain of occasions that forces a reckoning with energy, precept and the bounds of freedom.
“After I first heard about this crime, I used to be instantly hooked,” mentioned Swegal earlier than filming the film in Arkansas in late 2023. “Radicalization is a well-known idea, however at a time when our democracy is strained to the breaking level, and conspiracy-driven home terrorism is rising as an actual menace, the subject is extra related than ever.”
Premiering in theaters and out there to lease or personal on July 11, Sovereign is produced by Nick Moceri, with government producers Tom Ortenberg, Jessica Rose, Matthew Shreder, Grant Mohrman, Colin Bates, William Ramsey, Kerri Elder, Blake Elder, Ronnie Exley, Jeremy Ross, Sean Krajewski, Oli Sturdy, Danielle Goodman Sturdy, Adam Wyatt Tate, Danielle Mandel, Adam Anders, Justin Greenfield, Marco Kyris, Bennett Litwin, Matthew Marquis, Adam Ropp and Richard Weiner.
