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‘Skyline: Warpath’ – Alien Invasion Actioner Starring Iko Uwais and Scott Adkins Acquired for Release
The martial arts sci-fi action franchise that launched with Skyline in 2010 is set to continue with Skyline: Warpath, from writer/director Liam O’Donnell (Beyond Skyline). Deadline reports today that the newest installment has been acquired for U.S. distribution by XYZ Films.
Skyline: Warpath stars Iko Uwais (The Raid franchise) and Scott Adkins (John Wick: Chapter 4, Day Shift).
Set five years after the events of Beyond Skyline, the latest entry “follows Sua (Uwais) as he leads The Resistance against the aliens. When he discovers the powerful alien Radial Gauntlet, he must deal with both the corrupt Eric (Adkins) and the army of alien invaders.”
The acquisition news comes with a pair of first look images of Adkins and Uwais in action.
Louis Mandylor, Randall J. Bacon and Yayan Ruhain (The Raid franchise, Boy Kills World) star alongside Iko Uwais and Scott Adkins, and filmming is currently underway in Indonesia.
Beyond Skyline starred Frank Grillo as a tough-as-nails detective who embarked on a relentless pursuit to free his son from a nightmarish alien warship, and the sequel released in 2017. It was followed up by Skylines in 2020. Both sequels were written and helmed by Liam O’Donnell.
“Since we first met Iko Uwais, Matthew Chausse and I have been pushing to make a star vehicle for him like Warpath. Pairing him with the truly versatile action legend Scott Adkins, along with XYZ films, the company that started things off for us, has been a dream come true,” Liam O’Donnell told Deadline.
Skyline: Warpath will reunite Iko Uwais and Scott Adkins on screen; the pair previously starred in 2019’s action film Triple Threat. While we wait for more on Skyline: Warpath, we can expect to see Uwais next in the upcoming sci-fi thriller Ash from Flying Lotus.
Matthew Chausse and Evangelo Kioussis are producers on the film. Palisades Park Pictures is handling international sales on the film.
XYZ Films will release Skyline: Warpath domestically in early 2025.
Before updating the video nasty Faces of Death, director Daniel Goldhaber and writer Isa Mazzei explored the dangers of online life in tech-thriller Cam, their feature debut that was acquired by Netflix in 2018 after making waves on the festival circuit.
At the end of last year, the Netflix exclusive quietly departed from the streaming platform, left without another streaming home.
It’s not an isolated story; Mike Flanagan’s Hush also left streaming entirely for a period until it was finally picked up on both physical media and other streaming services.
While the tech-thriller currently isn’t available to watch on Netflix, Tubi, Hulu, or any other platforms, that’s not a problem for Cam thanks to a very cool move by Goldhaber: the director has made his breakout film accessible to watch online for free via his website.
As his site notes: “CAM is unfortunately not currently available to view on any platforms, so you can watch it here if you like :).“
No subscriptions or fees necessary, just hit play.
Cam follows Alice (Madeline Brewer), who works as an online cam girl obsessed with her ranking on the cam site. The higher her ranking goes, the more it draws unwanted attention, and Alice soon finds herself replaced on her own show with a doppelganger.
Written by Mazzei, a former camgirl, it uses the horror thriller premise to examine the life of a sex worker; Alice’s career ambition is directly at odds with the shame it brings to her family, and how she tries to spare them from it by keeping them in the dark. It only compounds her danger when the doppelganger enters the equation in Goldhaber’s engaging thriller.
For a deep dive into the treacherous world of Cam, listen to Horror Queers’ episode on it now.
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