EXCLUSIVE: Bankside Films has boarded US writer-director Shane Atkinson’s Le Cowboy, with pre-production set to begin later this year.
Belgian actors Matthias Schoenaerts, who won a César award for his role in Rust And Bone, and François Damiens, will star in the thriller about a man released from prison, eager to leave his criminal past behind him and find his nine-year-old daughter in France.
However, he finds himself drawn into one last job, kidnapping a teenage girl, with whom he forms an unlikely bond.
The English and French-language film will shoot in France, with some days in Belgium.
Sébastien Aubert and Leslie Jacob of Cannes-based Adastra Films are producing with Belgium’s Beside Productions and Austria’s Ellly Films.
Executive producers are Stephen Kelliher and Sophie Green for UK outfit Bankside Films.
“Le Cowboy is an action-packed thriller that’s set to raise the bar with intense sequences and bold cinematic style,” said Bankside Films’ head of sales Yana Georgieva. “This is the kind of film we love – grounded, intense and thrilling with a talent like Matthias Schoenaerts leading the way.”
US filmmaker Atkinson’s debut feature LaRoy, Texas premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2023 before going on to win multiple awards including the grand prix at the Deauville American Film Festival.
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