EXCLUSIVE: UK actor Jason Isaacs is set to join Djimon Hounsou and Ariyon Bakare in Donovan Marsh’s action drama The Bleeding Ground, due to shoot in South Africa early next year.
The White Lotus star will play an oil executive caught in a stand-off against a militant leader who is driven by personal loss and a quest for justice.
The Bleeding Ground is being produced by Jean-Luc Van Damme of Belgium’s Happy Moon Productions, with UK producer David P Kelly. The script is by UK screenwriter Mathew Bayliss.
Production is scheduled to begin in early 2026 for nine-weeks in Cape Town and Durban. Backing is coming from South African incentives, the UK film tax relief and private equity funding. The South African co-producers are Monareng Makwetla and Alison Ellard for Jozi Canvas Productions.
Marsh is a South African director whose previous credits include Hunter Killer starring Gerard Butler and Gary Oldman.
Happy Moon Productions’ filmography includes Bille August’s Goodbye Bafana, Glénio Bonder’s Passion Of War, Eduardo Rossoff’s Let Me Survive and Caroline Fourest’s Sisters In Arms.
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