Frank Grillo Set For Horror-Thriller ‘Merciless’ While Columbia’s Juan Pablo Raba Heads To Actioner ‘Sombra’, Sentient Launching Both Pics In Cannes
deadline.comFrank Grillo is set to star in Liam O’Donnell’s horror-thriller Merciless, which Sentient Pictures International is shopping here in Cannes this week.
The company also has announced that Columbian actor Juan Pablo Raba (Peppermint, Narcos) has been tapped to lead Antonio Negret’s new action thriller Sombra.Merciless is directed by Liam O’Donnell, the director behind XYZ Film’s Skylines franchise.
Renee Tab, Pierre Morel and Tuffin will produce alongside Andy Schefter for SPI. Tuffin developed the story with The Cooler writer Frank Hannah, who wrote the script.
Principal photography is set to commence on location in Alabama in August 2022.In Merciless, when his wife is possessed by a malevolent spirit, the government’s top interrogator seeks vengeance on those who were closest to the entity in its previous life in order to drive it out of her body only to discover that everything is not what it appears to be.Sombra, which also has The Suicide Squad’s Daniela Melchior in talks to star, follows the story of the Colombian cartel, which never expected the single most dangerous threat to their drug smuggling operation to be a decorated police dog.
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