Sean Astin & Craig Parker Board Political Thriller ‘A Social Contract’ From Director Jason Mac – First Look

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EXCLUSIVE: Sean Astin (Stranger Things) and Craig Parker (Good Trouble) have signed on to star alongside Domenica Cameron-Scorsese in Jason Mac’s political thriller, A Social Contract — the filmmaker’s follow-up to his directorial debut A Father’s Legacy, which was released by Cinedigm last year. (Check out the first still from Mac’s new feature, currently in production in Illinois, below.)In the film exploring the dynamics and social constructs of power, relationships and government, a political dinner turns deadly when a group of power-starved politicians fight for a seat of survival on a helicopter at the onset of a nuclear war.

While Astin will play the lead role of Senator Bennett Wilde, details as to Parker’s part haven’t been disclosed.A Social Contract also stars Christopher Wallinger (The Offer) and Samora Smallwood (Star Trek: Discovery), as well as Angela Morris (Shining Girls), Rachel Kang (Power Book IV: Force), Connor Green and Maria Alejandra Hernandez.

Alex Hanno wrote the script, with John Lerchen producing under his Chicago-based Forever Safe Productions banner, alongside his partners Austin Turner and Nick Silva.

The film is a co-production with Mad Honey Productions and The Chameleon Effect.Astin told Deadline that the thriller is “about what we mean to each other when we are afraid we are going to die.”“I’ve long been fascinated by the idea of ‘if I knew I were going to die tonight….what would my last hours be?’ Would I try to run our escape?