Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaMagnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, has acquired U.S. rights to “Riders of Justice,” a new action-thriller starring Mads Mikkelsen.The film follows Markus, a recently deployed military man, who returns home determined to exact revenge after his wife is killed in a train accident.
Markus slowly begins to suspect that foul play is involved after speaking to a survivor of the incident and sets out to find the people responsible. “Riders of Justice” is directed and written by Anders Thomas Jensen.
The company is eyeing a spring release. “In his role as an avenging angel, Mads Mikkelsen is spellbinding,” said Magnolia Pictures President Eamonn Bowles.
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