AFM 2016: Gareth Evans to Get Revenge on the Apostle
Gareth Evans (The Raid) is getting ready to get scary with his new thriller Apostle. THR is reporting that XYZ Films is handling foreign sales and will introduce the project to buyers at AFM.
Gareth Evans will write and direct period thriller Apostle, about a mysterious man who travels to a remote island in search of his missing sister.
In the film the man attempts to rescue his sister after she’s kidnapped by a religious cult, which is demanding a ransom for her return. But it soon becomes clear that the cult will regret the day it baited this man, who digs deeper and deeper into the secrets and lies upon which the commune is built.
XYZ Films, Severn Screen, and Evans’ One More One Productions will produce the project, with XYZ, which is handling international sales, introducing it to buyers at AFM in Santa Monica. The film is eyeing a March 2017 start of production in the UK.
Apostle is a reunion between Evans and XYZ, which produced and handled international sales on both The Raid and its sequel, The Raid 2. Evans rose to fame after he wrote and directed the 2011 action film that starred Iko Uwais. It was praised for its inventive action sequences and thrilling scenes and was acquired for the U.S. by Sony Pictures Classics. The sequel, also written and directed by Evans, was released in 2014.
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