Fifth Season, Thunder Road Producing Will Dunn’s 2023 Black List Actioner ‘The Peasant’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Fifth Season and Thunder Road Pictures are teaming on The Peasant, a period action feature based on a screenplay by Ms.
Marvel’s Will Dunn, which made the 2023 Black List. The film follows a lone 14th-century shepherd who embarks on a rage-fueled campaign against a group of mercenary knights that ransacked his community, revealing himself to be more than he seems.
Fifth Season will produce alongside Basil Iwanyk, Erica Lee and Charlie Morrison of Thunder Road, which is fresh off the rapturous debut of its SXSW Audience Award winner, Monkey Man, the action thriller marking the feature directorial debut of Dev Patel, which hits theaters via Uni this Friday.
In addition to writing on the Emmy-winning Ms. Marvel, Dunn has multiple original feature scripts in development and has worked on films for Disney, Sony, eOne, and Warner Bros.
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