EXCLUSIVE: Vanessa Hudgens (Dangerous Boys: Trip or Die) has wrapped manufacturing in Vancouver, British Columbia on Quiet Storm, a dramatic thriller marking the directorial debut of Anthony Thorne, who additionally penned the script.
Exploring themes from the ’60s comparable to ladies’s liberation and the Black Energy motion, the movie takes place in the summertime of 1969, because the notorious Hurricane Camille marks its tragic landfall. Hudgens performs a romance novelist trapped indoors through the storm as she struggles to deal with the truth of an ever-changing world.
Academy Award winner Mira Sorvino (Shining Vale, American Crime Story) co-stars, as does Thorne as Hudgens’ husband. Alongside Hudgens, Thorne and Sorvino, the movie additionally options up-and-comers together with Seydou Maiga, Sophia Chapdelaine, Cody John, and Elysée Sanvillé. The movie is being offered and govt produced by filmmaker Nick Cassavetes, a longtime pal and supporter of Thorne.
Hudgens and Thorne partnered as lead producers beneath Thorne’s manufacturing firm, Cliffside Movies, alongside producer Oliver Trevena of Ollywood Media, and producers Stephanie Rennie and Emrey Wright of Odessa Productions. Different govt producers embrace Cassavetes’ decades-long collaborator, Matthew Barry of Adegan Productions, in addition to Joel Eisenberg, Steve Snyder and Heidi Ben. Ronnie Exley and Rabbits Black are the financiers.
Recognized for roles in every little thing from the Excessive Faculty Musical movies to the Princess Swap trilogy, Concord Korine’s Spring Breakers, and the final two Dangerous Boys movies, reverse Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, Hudgens is repped by Untitled Leisure, CAA, and Ziffren Brittenham.
Sorvino received an Oscar for Mighty Aphrodite and has extra not too long ago been seen starring in tasks just like the Starz collection Shining Vale, Sound of Freedom, and Impeachment: American Crime Story. She is repped by Circle Administration + Manufacturing and Impartial Artists Group.
Thorne has a number of different tasks in numerous levels of improvement, together with a sci-fi thriller known as Lifeform, which he co-wrote with Ice Dice and can produce alongside Dice and Jeff Kwatinetz beneath Dice Imaginative and prescient, with Simon West set to direct. Alongside his brother Michael Tovo, he additionally co-wrote After Exile, a criminal offense drama to be directed by Dito Montiel and star Shia LaBeouf, which is aiming to shoot later this yr in Philadelphia and will likely be produced by Thorne, Keith Kjarvel, Scott LaStaiti, and Andrea Bucko. The filmmaker is repped by CAA and the regulation places of work of Kirk Schenck.
Recognized for tasks like The Pocket book, John Q, Alpha Canine, and most not too long ago God Is a Bullet starring Maika Monroe, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Jamie Foxx, Cassavetes is repped by LBI Leisure, WME and Yorn, Levine, Barnes.
