MoviePass Still Thinks They Can Make Movies, Casts Bruce Willis In ‘10 Minutes Gone’
Making a movie is extraordinarily difficult even under optimal conditions. But that’s not stoppingMoviePassfrom trying to make one themselves while they’re desperately trying to avoid an all-out tailspin into financial ruin. MoviePass Films has just castBruce Willisin a ludicrous-sounding new thriller called10 Minutes Gone, the newest of three MoviePass movies under the company’s subsidiary production company.
You’ve probably heard all aboutGotti, the John Travolta film thatstirred up its fair share of controversyand still holdsa rare 0% ratingon Rotten Tomatoes. That was MoviePass Films' first project. They followed that up with something I’ve never heard of: a film calledThe Row, which doesn’t look much better thanGotti:
NowDeadlinesays MoviePass has hired Bruce Willis to play a villain in10 Minutes Gone, which is not a prediction of how long MoviePass is going to continue to exist, but instead a thriller that will technically be the first of these three films to have a production start under the MoviePass Films banner, which was started after the movie ticket subscription service’s parent companyacquired Emmett Furla Oasis Films earlier this summer. Here’s the synopsis:
The story follows a man who loses ten minutes of his memory due to being hit by a stray bullet during a bank heist gone wrong. He must put the pieces of his broken memory together in order to find out who sabotaged the job and took the money, all while being pursued by a powerful crime boss hellbent on recovering the cash. Willis plays the pissed off crime boss.
Brian A. Miller, who has previously directed Willis in disposable low-budget fare likeVice,Reprisal, andThe Prince, will direct10 Minutes Gone, which has a script from a short film producer namedKelvin Maoand co-writerJeff Jingle, who has primarily worked in the special effects department throughout his career. This is their first feature-length screenplay.Meadow Williams, Swen Temmel, Sergio Rizzuto, andTyler Jon Olsoncomprise the rest of the cast, and production is set to get underway next month in Ohio, of all places.
