Searchlight Pictures has efficiently acquired the rights to the spec script Clear Break from rising author Ryan Brennan. The studio received the challenge in a bidding competitors towards different studios.
This marks Brennan’s first main movement image after beforehand directing and writing the script for final yr’s quick drama Skinned. The quick additionally starred Brennan as a boxer named Tucker. The actor and filmmaker beforehand appeared in a number of shorts, akin to 2014’s Jack Bowman, 2015’s The Farthest Apple From the Tree, 2015’s A Blissful Marriage, and 2018’s Final Meal. He additionally had one-episode appearances on Power and Law & Order.
What’s Clear Break about?
“Within the movie, when a fiercely impartial pool hustler lastly meets her match in a fellow pool shark, their irresistible however damaging attraction to 1 one other results in lethal penalties that she will’t outrun,” reads the challenge’s preliminary synopsis.
In the intervening time, Clear Break is at the moment in improvement. Additional particulars about its forged, manufacturing begin date, and goal launch date are nonetheless being stored beneath wraps. The challenge additionally has no director hooked up to it.
SVP Manufacturing Taylor Friedman and Artistic Affairs Supervisor Daniel Yu have been tapped to supervise the challenge on behalf of Searchlight Photos, together with Scott Free Productions’ SVP of Movie Sam Rostan.
Earlier than Searchlight Photos landed the spec script, it landed on the Black Checklist website a yr in the past beneath the title I’ll F**king Kill You.
Supply: Deadline
