Locarno Action Spectacle ‘Topakk’ Introduces ‘Flawed’ Hero, Debuts Trailer, Racks Up Sales: ‘We Are Doing It the Old-School Way’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comMarta Balaga Raven Banner Entertainment continues to rack up sales for Richard V. Somes’ action spectacle “Topakk.” “Topakk”(“Trigger”) has been sold to Aud (South Korea), Superfine Films (India), Kinologistika (CIS and the Baltics) and Lighthouse (German-speaking Europe).
It’s not the end of good news, as the film – debuting its trailer and produced by Fusee, with Strawdogs Studio Production and Nathan Studios co-producing – is also set to bow at Locarno next week. “It’s an amazing feeling.
I have never imagined it,” admits the director. In “Topakk,” which he co-wrote with Jim Flores and Will Fredo, Somes shows a man struggling with PTSD.
Discharged from the army, he finds himself in the middle of a different kind of conflict when a drug peddler seeks his protection against a vigilante death squad. “I am really inspired by the 1980s action films.
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