Amazon Prime Video Greenlights U.K. Action Thriller ‘Gassed Up’ From ‘Hard Stop’ Director George Amponsah (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comManori Ravindran International EditorAmazon Prime Video has greenlit BAFTA-nominated “Hard Stop” director George Amponsah’s feature film debut, action thriller “Gassed Up.”Now in production in London, the movie will launch on Prime Video in the U.K.
and Ireland in 2023. Directed by Amponsah, and written by Archie Maddocks and Taz Skylar, the film stars Stephen Odubola (“Blue Story,” “A Violent Man”), Skylar (“One Piece,” “Boiling Point”) and singer Mae Muller, as well as Ms Banks, Yung Filly and Harry Pinero.Set during the peak of a wave of moped crimes sweeping London, “Gassed Up” follows 20-year-old Ash (Odubola), who is trying to earn money to raise his 14-year-old sister and send his mother to rehab, but gets caught up with an organized crime ring led by a young and charismatic Albanian immigrant (Skylar).
As the crimes get bigger and the attention becomes addictive, Ash struggles to keep his head above water. Soon, he has to choose between the people he loves, and having his whole life come crashing down around him.Amponsah is best known for his critically acclaimed 2015 documentary “The Hard Stop,” which followed friends of the late Mark Duggan, a London youth who was gunned down by police in 2011, sparking a wave of civil unrest.
Other credits include the docuseries “Enslaved,” starring Samuel L. Jackson, and the BAFTA-nominated documentary “Black Power: A British Story of Resistance.”“Gassed Up” is produced by Rupert Preston and Ed Caffrey of Sunrise Films and “Boiling Point” duo Bart Ruspoli and Hester Ruoff of Ascendant Fox.
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