EXCLUSIVE: WME Independent announced on Wednesday that they will be launching domestic sales on King Ivory, the starry crime thriller written and directed by John Swab (Ida Red), at this year’s Venice Film Festival, where the film is world premiering in competition.
Based on extensive research involving Oklahoma law enforcement and active gang members, King Ivory offers a never-before-seen, authentic look inside the underworld of fentanyl trafficking from gangs inside the Oklahoma State Penitentiary at McAlester a.k.a. “Big Mac.” With potency 100 times that of heroin and nearly undetectable at the border, the drug nicknamed King Ivory has flooded the market, triggering a tidal wave of overdoses, crime and addiction.
The film chronicles the efforts of a joint local, state and federal task force to prevent the trafficking of the Irish Mob’s George “Smiley” Greene (Ben Foster), his mother Ginger (Melissa Leo) and uncle Mickey (Ritchie Coster), in partnership with the Indian Brotherhood’s Holt (Graham Greene) and the New Generation Mexican cartel’s Ramón (Michael Mando).
In a statement to Deadline on the project, Swab said: “To prepare for this script, I spent a lot of time with families of addicts, active junkies, government officials, cops, trafficked migrants, criminals, cartel members, and prisoners.
Read more on deadline.com
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