EXCLUSIVE: Steelyard Pictures, the manufacturing firm behind 2022 horror thriller The Inhabitant, has connected Andrzej Bartkowiak (Romeo Must Die) to direct The Dire Wolf, a supernatural thriller to shoot in New Mexico, for launch subsequent yr.
No phrase but on the casting entrance. But the movie tells the story of Hank Whitmore, a pointy and cussed New Mexican sheriff who aligns with the Navajo Nation when a sequence of supernatural occasions threatens his household, his city, and his lifestyle.
Ry Cook penned the script and Leone Marucci (The Inhabitant, The Power of Few) will produce alongside Tetrad Studios’ Roy Scott Macfarland (The Devil You Know, Fast Charlie), Legacy Media Ventures’ Jeffrey Katz (Buffaloed), and Randy Mendelsohn. Matthew Coates and Kenneth Heilfron will function EPs.
“American cinema has long wrestled with our native culture’s spiritual connection to the natural world,” noticed Marucci, explaining that “the extinct Dire Wolf was [once] indigenous to North America. Today the wolf spirit symbolizes trust of intuition, guardianship, and the courage to walk one’s own path. We’re thrilled to enlist such a renowned filmmaker to bring The Dire Wolf to the screen.”
A local of Poland, Bartkowiak is finest referred to as the cinematographer of Sidney Lumet’s The Verdict, in addition to such different studio movies as Speed, Species, Dante’s Peak, Lethal Weapon 4, and The Devil’s Advocate. His credit on the directing entrance embrace the Jet Li motion thriller Romeo Must Die, Steven Seagal pic Exit Wounds, the crime drama Cradle 2 the Grave, additionally starring Li, and the sci-fi horror Doom with Karl Urban, which was just lately re-released by Netflix.
In addition to Jerren Lauder’s The Inhabitant, starring Odessa A’zion, Leslie Bibb and Dermot Mulroney, for which Gravitas Ventures served as distributor, Steelyard’s credit embrace founder Leone Marucci’s motion drama The Power of Few, starring Christopher Walken, Q’orianka Kilcher, Christian Slater, and Anthony Anderson, in addition to the Marucci-helmed indie comedy Reaction.
Bartkowiak is repped by Mendelsohn Law Office and Oren Segal of Management Production Entertainment.
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