EXCLUSIVE: Bruce Willis is set to star in , a thriller directed by Steven C. Miller (Submerged) that begins shooting February 9 in Alabama. Umair Aleem wrote the script. It’s produced by Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films’ Randall Emmett and George Furla with Aperture’s Adam Goldworm. EFO is funding the film with Ingenious and Odyssey Releasing Media. The film will be released in the U.S. by Lionsgate/Grindstone through its multi-picture distribution deal, and Highland Film Group will sell it next month in Berlin. It becomes the seventh film Willis has made with EFO.
Willis plays a former CIA operative who hasn’t been the same since his wife was murdered. His son is a fresh young CIA operative following in his footsteps and with his father they are working on the development of a super-weapon called the Condor, when dad is kidnapped by a terrorist group. Learning that there is no plan for his father to be saved, Harry launches his own rescue operation. It leads to a conspiracy that will change his life forever. Tim Sullivan, Brandon Grimes and Gus Furla as co-producers.
Willis is repped by CAA, Miller by UTA and Aperture and EFO by WME.
EFO’s in pre-production on Martin Scorsese’s Silence, which Paramount releases, and just began shooting 90 Minutes In Heaven. EFO exec produced the Sundance-premiering Mississippi Grind and the Universal climbing disaster pic Everest.
Mike Fleming
