Taylor Kitsch Teams With Filmmaker Peter Landesman On Hostage Pic ‘Eleven Days'
The film is set in the sweltering heat of a Texas summer in 1974, as head of the Texas Department of Corrections Jim Estelle (Kitsch) plays a deadly game against the ruthless Federico Carrasco, a convicted heroin dealer who has taken over the Huntsville Penitentiary and is holding dozens hostage after his pre-planned escape has gone awry. Lines between captor and captive, justice and survival, begin to blur as the siege spirals for 11 endless, terrifying days.
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Based on the book Eleven Days in Hell: The 1974 Carrasco Prison Siege at Huntsville, Texas by William T. Harper, the film was written by Kevin Sheridan with revisions by Landesman. Vincent Newman and Vance Howard will produce.
Kitsch is gearing up for Prime Video's August 28 release of The Terminal List prequel series, Dark Wolf, a spinoff of the original that explores the life of his character Ben Edwards. He recently starred in back-to-back hit Netflix limited series American Primeval and Painkiller, both of which reached #1 on the Global Top 10 list at the time of release. The latter earned him a Critics Choice Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Notable film credits for the actor include Only the Brave, The Normal Heart, Savages, Battleship, and X-Men Origins: Wolverine, to name just a few. He is repped by Untitled Entertainment and WME.
For Landesman, prior feature credits include Concussion starring Will Smith, Parkland starring Zac Efron, and Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House, starring Liam Neeson. He is repped by CAA, Manage-ment, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
Sheridan is repped by Bellevue, WME, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
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