Sci-Fi Action Pic ‘Viper’ From 308 Entertainment Bites Five At Cannes
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Peter Facinelli, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Stephen Dorff, Neal McDonough and Nathaniel Arcand have boarded Marc Furmie’s sci-fi action thriller Viper, which is being sold in the Cannes market by Solone.
Furmie and Jason Mavraidis wrote the script when takes place post a nuclear holocaust. An elite team of soldiers are sent into a condemned zone to destroy a bio-weapons lab.
Instead they discover that Indigenous locals have returned to re-claim their land and discovered a cure for radioactive fallout.
The pic’s is billed as being a cross between such pics as Saving Private Ryan and dystopian sci-fi filmsChildren of Men and Stalker.Twilight thespian Facinelli plays Cole Vinson, the haunted captain of a team of operators sent into radiation-plagued Sector 12 by government agent Hank Reynolds (Minority Report‘s McDonough), in order to subsidize healthcare for his dying daughter.
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