Orlando Bloom, Andie MacDowell To Star In Nelms Brothers Film – CB

EXCLUSIVE: Orlando Bloom (Carnival Row) and Andie MacDowell (Maid) have signed on to star in Purple Proper Hand, an upcoming action-thriller from administrators Ian and Eshom Nelms (Fatman).

The movie written by Jonathan Easley facilities on Money (Bloom), who’s attempting to reside an sincere and quiet life, taking good care of his niece Savannah within the Appalachian hills of Odim County. When the sadistic Queenpin Massive Cat (MacDowell) who runs the city forces him again into her companies, Money learns he’s able to something—even killing—to guard the city and the one household he has left. Because the journey will get tougher, Money is drawn right into a nightmare that blurs the strains between good and evil.

Asbury Park Photos is serving because the mission’s financier and producing alongside Traction. Particular person producers on board embrace John Wick‘s Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee, Asbury Park Photos’ Mike Gabrawy, Traction’s Jason Tamasco and Zak Kristofek, and Michelle Lang. Galen Smith and Marc Danon are serving as government producers, with manufacturing to kick off in Kentucky subsequent month.

The Nelms Brothers are recognized for writing and directing movies together with Misplaced on Function, a heartfelt coming-of-age love letter to their small hometown. The siblings later wrote and directed Waffle Road, a comedy primarily based on the memoir of a billion greenback hedge-fund supervisor turned waffle home server, and the thriller Small City Crime, which premiered at SXSW and the BFI London Movie Competition. Their most up-to-date function, Fatman, starring Mel Gibson, Walton Goggins and Marianne Jean-Baptiste, was distributed by Saban Movies. The brothers have additionally written a script primarily based on the lifetime of Carol Burnett for Focus Options, and government produced an impartial comedy sequence titled Everyone seems to be Doing Nice, whereas creating a sci-fi sequence with Octavia Spencer.

Bloom most not too long ago starred in Ludwig and Paul Shammasians indie Retaliation, as nicely Rod Lurie’s drama The Outpost, which was acknowledged by the Nationwide Board of Evaluate as one of many 10 Finest Impartial Movies of 2020. The actor will subsequent be seen starring in Season 2 of Amazon’s fantasy sequence Carnival Row, which he additionally exec produces. Bloom is well-known for starring in two of the most important movie franchises of all time: The Lord of the Rings and Pirates of the Caribbean. He’s additionally been seen in movies together with Digging for Hearth, Romeo and Juliet, The Three Musketeers, The Good Physician, Sympathy for Scrumptious, New York, I Love You, Elizabethtown, Kingdom of Heaven, Troy, Ned Kelly and Black Hawk Down.

MacDowell is a Golden Globe and Impartial Spirit Award winner who most not too long ago starred in Netflix’s acclaimed unique sequence Maid, impressed by Stephanie Land’s New York Occasions bestselling memoir, alongside her daughter Margaret Qualley. Shortly after its world premiere, the sequence made historical past as one of many streamer’s most-watched restricted sequence of all time. She’s going to subsequent be seen in Sofia Alvarez’s Alongside for the Journey for Netflix; Tal Granit and Sharon Maymon’s My Completely satisfied Ending; Sarah Elizabeth Mintz’s Good Lady Jane; and Sara Zandieh’s The Different Zoey. The actress is in any other case greatest recognized for turns in movies together with No Man’s Land, Prepared or Not, Solely the Courageous, Magic Mike XXL, Footloose, Multiplicity, 4 Weddings and a Funeral, Quick Cuts, Groundhog Day, The Participant, Hudson Hawk, Intercourse, Lies, and Videotape and St. Elmo’s Hearth.

Bloom is represented by WME and Felker Toczek Suddleson; MacDowell by Gersh and RMS Productions; and the Nelms Brothers by ICM Companions, LBI Leisure and Ilene Feldman Administration.