EXCLUSIVE: Joseph Baena (Chariot) will star alongside Luke Hemsworth and Morgan Freeman in the action film Gunner, directed by Dimitri Logothetis (Jiu Jitsu), which is now in production in Alabama.
The film penned by Logothetis and Gary Scott Thompson (The Fast and the Furious) follows Special forces veteran Lee Gunner (Hemsworth) as he takes his two boys on a camping trip, where the boys stumble upon a fentanyl lab and are kidnapped by drug runners.
Unfortunately for the drug runners, Lee will stop at nothing to get his boys back safely, going up against not only the criminal cartel, but the FBI and local police as well, using the full force of his deadly abilities to reunite his family.
Baena will portray Wally, a young, wet-behind-the-ears Deputy Sheriff. Pic’s producers include Joel Shapiro (Killerman), Logothetis, magiCity Studios and Acme Rocket Fuel.
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