AFM: Milla Jovovich to Star in Action-Thriller ‘Protector’ (Special)

Citizen Evil star Milla Jovovich is set to heading Protector, a Taken– esque action thriller that Highland Movie is pitching to purchasers at this year’s American Movie Market. Adrian Grünberg ( Rambo: Last Blood, Get the Gringo) is set to direct from a movie script by Bong-Seeb Mun. Production is slated to start this winter season in New Mexico.

The movie’s log line has Jovovich playing Nikki, a previous war hero who thought she had actually left her violent past behind to raise her child, Chloe, in peace. When she awakens in a deserted factory and discovers that Chloe has actually been abducted, Nikki has browse the city’s criminal underworld, pursued by both the police officers and the military, to get her child back.

Protector is among a multitude of action tasks heading to AFM today as manufacturers double down on a go back to shoot- ’em- up thrillers.

Kenneth Kim, Bang-Ok Joo and Bong-Seeb Mun are set to produce for Aanaxion Studio, together with Arianne Fraser and Delphine Perrier for Highland Movie Group. Martial artist and stunt organizer Ho-Sung Pak ( Transformers: Age of Termination, Bullet Train) is likewise connected as a manufacturer and the movie’s stunt organizer. Highland Movie Group is co-financing the task and will manage around the world rights.

Jovovich will next appear in Paul W.S. Anderson’s In the Lost Lands, together with Dave Bautista. She is represented by CAA, Untitled Home Entertainment and Hansen Jacobson.4 o mini.

Highland Movie Group’s present slate likewise consists of Chuck Russell’s Witchboard, Justin Chadwick’s Sierra Madre and Joe Carnahan’s Not Without Hope