Dave Bautista To Star In Bouncer Action Thriller ‘Cooler’ From Drew Pearce For FilmNation’s Infrared
28.09.2022 - 22:55
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EXCLUSIVE: FilmNation Entertainment’s newly formed production label, Infrared, has won a great package in a competitive bid snapping up Drew Pearce’s action thriller pitch, Cooler, in which the Dune and Guardians of the Galaxy actor Dave Bautista will star. Production is expected to start in summer 2023 and Pearce is directing off his script.
Cooler is the first project to come out of the recently announced first-look deal between Infrared and Bautista’s Dogbone Entertainment.
The film follows a South Beach bouncer Ray Sagona, played by Bautista, who is on the brink of finding redemption and getting his family back. But when a drug-filled safe is stolen from the super club he works at, Ray is blackmailed into finding it before the Miami PD narcotics bureau comes to retrieve it on Sunday night. Now, as his past and present collide in ever-more dangerous ways, Ray must survive an epic 36-hour odyssey across Miami Beach to get that safe back… one final Herculean task on his journey towards absolution.
Pearce will produce through his Point of No Return banner along with Bautista’s Dogbone Entertainment, Jonathan Meisner, Drake, Future the Prince, and Drew Simon and Sam Speiser for Infrared. Ian Fisher and Toby Harvard are executive producing on behalf of Point of No Return. Infrared is also financing the film and handling worldwide sales.
Led by Drew Simon, Infrared is set to finance and produce mainstream films with franchise potential built around some of the industry’s greatest entertainers. The label plans to produce three to four mid to high level budget films each year appealing to a broad audience in the action, thriller, comedy, and sci-fi genres.
“Drew Pearce is one of the most exciting storytellers in the action genre
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