EXCLUSIVE: Aaron Eckhart has boarded the pugilist drama Rumble Through the Dark based on the Michael Farris Smith novel The Fighter.
Smith adapted his own novel and Graham Phillips & Parker Phillips (The Bygone) will direct. Foresight Unlimited is introducing the movie for foreign buyers at the Virtual Cannes Market.
Elevated’s Cassian Elwes is producing and will rep the pic for U.S. sale along with CAA Media Finance.Rumble Through the Dark is set in the dark landscape of the Mississippi Delta, where a former bare-knuckle fighter (Eckhart) must win one last fight to pay off his debts to the local mob boss and save his childhood home—the stakes nothing less than life or death.
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