Highland Movie Group has locked distribution offers in key worldwide territories in all media for the upcoming thriller “Just Play Dead.”
It’s headlined by Academy Award-nominee and “Pulp Fiction” star Samuel L. Jackson, in addition to Eva Inexperienced of “Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children” and Maria Pedraza of Netflix’s “Money Heist.” The movie is directed by Martin Campbell, the filmmaker behind “Goldeneye” and “Casino Royale,” the latter of which starred Inexperienced. It was written by Dan Gordon, who penned “Rambo: Last Blood.”
Highland Movie Group has offered the rights to “Just Play Dead” to Splendid Movie for Germany, Originals Manufacturing facility for France, Youplanet Footage for Spain, Blue Swan Leisure for Italy, Premier TV for Benelux, Feelgood Leisure for Greece, Cinemundo for Portugal, Scanbox Leisure for Scandinavia, Village Roadshow Footage for Australia/New Zealand, CDC United Community for Latin America, VVS Movies for Canada, Filmfinity for South Africa, KCS for Ex-Yugoslavia, Foxx Media Group for the Czech Republic/Slovakia, Cinetel for Hungary, Monolith Movies for Poland, Karpat Media for Romania, Tanweer for Turkey, Falcon Movies for the Center East, PictureWorks for India and Airline Rights and MovieCloud for Taiwan.
“Just Play Dead” is a European co-production spearheaded by Head Gear Movies’ Phil Hunt who produces alongside Gemstone Movies’ Valentin Dimitrov, Sagiv Diamant, Moshe Diamant and Gaby Whyte Hart, who additionally serves because the casting director. “Just Play Dead” is government produced by Arianne Fraser and Delphine Perrier for Highland Movie Group.
Highland Movie Group co-financed the movie and is dealing with worldwide rights to “Just Play Dead,” with CAA Media Finance overseeing home rights. Manufacturing was accomplished final fall within the Canary Islands, with Highland screening the finished movie for patrons in Cannes.
The movie kicks off as prison mastermind Jack Wolfe (Jackson) is cornered by the Feds. He plans to pretend his personal dying and declare a $30 million life insurance coverage payout along with his “grieving” spouse Nora (Inexperienced). Then the couple will framing Nora’s surfer lover Chad for his homicide. However Nora has a special plan. She desires to truly Jack, body Chad and hold the cash. As their lies unravel, Nora and Jack attempt to outsmart each other.
Highland Movie Group’s present slate additionally contains Lisette Feliciano’s “Iron Jane” starring Eiza Gonzalez and Brandon Sklenar; Neil Burger’s motion thriller “Barracuda” starring Anthony Mackie and Dafne Eager; Justin Chadwick’s motion spy-thriller “The Mark” starring Jessica Alba, Tom Hopper and Elsa Pataky; “The Black Demon: Atlantis” starring Jack Kesy; Pierre Morel’s motion thriller “The Good Samaritan,” starring Daisy Ridley, Josh Duhamel and Sharlto Copley; the espionage motion thriller “Stratagem,” starring Noomi Rapace and Teo Yoo and Brad Anderson’s psychological thriller “Moral Capacity,” starring Dacre Montgomery, Diane Lane, Sofia Boutella and Tim Robbins.
