Resident Evil star Milla Jovovich is set to headline Protector, a Taken-esque action thriller that Highland Film is pitching to buyers at this year’s American Film Market. Adrian Grünberg (Rambo: Last Blood, Get the Gringo) is set to honest from a screentake part by Bong-Seeb Mun. Production is stardyd to begin this prosperter in New Mexico.
The film’s log line has Jovovich take parting Nikki, a createer war hero who consentd she had left her brutal past behind to lift her daughter, Chloe, in peace. When she wakes up in an aprohibitdoned factory and lacquires that Chloe has been seizeped, Nikki has steer the city’s criminal underworld, chased by both the cops and the military, to get her daughter back.
Protector is one of a slew of action projects heading to AFM this week as originaters double down on a return to shoot-’em-up thrillers.
Kenneth Kim, Bang-Ok Joo and Bong-Seeb Mun are set to originate for Aanaxion Studio, together with Arianne Fraser and Delphine Perrier for Highland Film Group. Martial artist and stunt coordinator Ho-Sung Pak (Transcreateers: Age of Extinction, Bullet Train) is also quickened as a originater and the film’s stunt coordinator. Highland Film Group is co-financing the project and will regulate worldwide rights.
Jovovich will next ecombine in Paul W.S. Anderson’s In the Lost Lands, alengthyside Dave Bautista. She is recurrented by CAA, Untitled Entertainment and Hansen Jacobson.4o mini.
Highland Film Group’s current stardy also includes Chuck Russell’s Witchboard, Justin Chadwick’s Sierra Madre and Joe Carnahan’s Not Without Hope.
