EXCLUSIVE: Koulest Productions’ Miles Koules (Ski Weekend) and Oren Koules (Saw franchise) have optioned Boom!
Studios’ comic Plunder, from creator-author Jonathan “Swifty” Lang, for development as a feature.Plunder is a horror story that picks up with a gang of Somali pirates after they face off with an illegal Chinese vessel.
They then try to board what they think is a research ship, only to find themselves in the midst of a massacre, with their worst nightmares becoming reality around them.
The 14-year-old boy who went from translator to reluctant pirate becomes their key to survival, but he must decide how far he’s willing to go in the name of self-preservation.The Koulest Productions duo has tapped Ethan Teller (Jar of Fools) to pen the script, with two-time Academy Award-nominated SFX Artist Alec Gillis (Prey) and his newly formed Studio Gillis also coming aboard the project to oversee its Special Effects.“Jonathan pitched me the plot of “Plunder” when we were introduced by a mutual friend at a Clipper game.
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