Uwe Boll Returns With New York City Crime Drama ‘First Shift’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comEd Meza @edmezavar After a long break from feature films, director Uwe Boll is back and ready to roll with his latest project, a crime drama about two mismatched New York City cops on their first day as partners. “First Shift” stars Kristen Renton (“Sons of Anarchy”) and Gino Anthony Pesi (“Shades of Blue”) as the badge-carrying duo, she a transplant from Atlanta new to the Big Apple, he a jaded Brooklyn cop who prefers to work alone but forced to take on the new partner.
Set to start shooting in New York City next month, “First Shift” has moved ahead of two other projects Boll has in the works, a South Africa-set thriller and a feature about Prohibition-era federal agent Eliot Ness — famously played by Kevin Costner and Robert Stack in the 1987 film and the 1959 series “The Untouchables” — during the latter part of his career.
Produced by Boll’s L.A. and Vancouver-based Event Film, “First Shift” follows the two cops as their first day as partners is turned upside down by personal tragedy and a mob killing.
While heartbreaking and brutal, the hard-hitting crime drama is also interspersed with a bit of humor as the two very different partners learn to trust each other.
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