Oscar nominee Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire) is set to star in The Journeyman, a new crime thriller fro director Tarsem Singh (The Fall) and Stuart Ford’s AGC Studios, which will produce and fully finance the project.
AGC International reps the film’s international distribution rights and will introduce it to buyers at AFM. Scripted by the husband-and-wife duo of Bryan and Alexis Roberts, aka The Roberts, The Journeyman is the story of a struggling pro tennis player who is lured into an illegal match-fixing ring to support his family and finds himself trapped in a ruthless world of corruption and violence he may never escape.
Oscar nominee Scott Franklin is producing alongside Ford for AGC, Mason Eways for LBI Entertainment, and Patel’s Minor Realm, with Shamier Anderson and Stephan James exec producing for Bay Mills.
CAA Media Finance is handling domestic alongside AGC, with EVP of Legal & Business Affairs Anant Tamirisa representing AGC Studios on the project.
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