EXCLUSIVE: Action thriller Stand Your Ground has been picked up in the U.S. by Epic Pictures. The deal was locked ahead of the upcoming American Film Market.
Sales outfit Iuvit Media, which brokered the deal, has also sold the flick to Tiberius Film for German-speaking territories, MediaSquad for Poland and Front Row for MENA territories.
Iuvit Media will continue to sell rights at AFM. Directed by Fansu Njie (Last Man Down) and written by Craig Walser (Rambo Last Blood) the film is centered on an ex-SEAL in a small american town, who uses the stand-your-ground law to take revenge for his family’s murder.
Daniel Stisen (Last Man Down, Those About to Die) stars as Jack Johnson a former SEAL living a quiet life with his wife and child, Peter Stormare (John Wick, Day Shift) stars as Bastion, the Boss of the local criminal organization that is responsible for John’s family murder and Eric Roberts (Babylon, The Expandables) stars as Earl, John’s neighbor and old time pal.
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