Thrillers ‘Marooned Awakening’, ‘American Trash’ And ‘Deadly Games’ Set Casts; Gravitas Acquires ‘The Other Me’ From EP David Lynch And Horror Pic ‘Tethered’; More – Film Briefs

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EXCLUSIVE: Tim McInnerny (Notting Hill, Blackadder) has signed on to star alongside Murray McArthur (Wonka, The Northman), Cameron Ashplant (Gentleman Jack), Tilly Keeper (EastEnders), Jenet Le Lacheur (Cinderella) and Brian Webster in the thriller Marooned Awakening, which is in production on the island of Guernsey.The film directed by Musaab Mustafa follows Alex (Ashplant), an aspiring young journalist who dreams of leaving his island home, as he journeys through distorted memories of his mourning father (McArthur), loving girlfriend and a recent accident.

McInnerny will play Karl, a press editor who offers the protagonist a new life as a journalist on the mainland.Pic is an Across the Channel Productions and Ivy Gate Films production, with support from Guernsey Arts.

Mustafa and Ashplant penned the script, with the latter also producing alongside Roger Le Tissier and Frances Le Tissier. McInnerny is represented by The Artists Partnership (UK).***EXCLUSIVE: Actor Robert LaSardo (Nip/Tuck, The Mule) is making his feature directorial debut with the crime thriller American Trash, starring in the pic currently in production in Los Angeles, alongside Costas Mandylor (Picket Fence, Saw franchise) and Lorelei Linklater (Boyhood, Bomb City).Set amidst a social crisis in the decaying world of Los Angeles, American Trash watches as the city freefalls into environmental ruin, chaos and a complete drug epidemic.

Milles Carpis (LaSardo) leans on the support of some new age hippie friends as they guide him away from violence when the woman he loves (Linklater) is murdered, subsequently turning to Detective Anderson (Mandylor) for help in his search for her killer.Diana Ramos-Santiago Carter, Josh Webber and Jerry G.