Academy Award Nominee Ethan Hawke (Regression, Sinister, Boyhood, Training Day) will star in Fundamental Films and Thunder Road Pictures’ upcoming thriller 24 Hours to Live, with acclaimed Second Unit Director Brian Smrz tapped to direct, Bloody Disgusting learned out of EFM in Berlin.
Penned by Zachary Dean based on an original script from Ron Mita & Jim McClain, “24 Hours to Live follows a career assassin who is given a chance at redemption after his employer brings him back to life temporarily, just after being killed on the job.”
Basil Iwanyk of Thunder Road, Fundamental Films Chairman Mark Gao and International President Gregory Ouanhon are producing the film, with Fundamental fully financing. Fundamental Films’ Gary Glushon and Thunder Road’s Kent Kubena and Jonathan Fuhrman will executive produce. Sierra/Affinity will handle international sales starting next week at Berlin.
Smrz is highly regarded for his work as Second Unit Director on the likes of X-Men: Apocalypse, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Iron Man 3, Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Live Free or Die Hard.