Russell Crowe and Liam Hemsworth will team for an action thriller called “Land of Bad” to be directed by “Underwater” filmmaker Will Eubank.
The project will kick off principal photography in September in Australia, and Highland Film Group is coming aboard the project to represent international sales rights and present it to buyers at the Cannes Film Festival.
Crowe plays Reaper, an Air Force drone pilot supporting a special ops extraction mission in the South Philippines. The field team is joined by Kinney (Hemsworth), a green Air Force JTAC, and the ground mission suddenly turns upside down when the team is discovered by the enemy.
With no weapons and no communication other than the drone, Reaper becomes the young operator’s only ticket out.Eubank co-wrote the script with David Frigerio, both of whom are also producing, including Frigerio for Broken Open Pictures and Volition Media Partners’ Adam Beasley and Michael Jefferson.Other producers include R.U.
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