Zac Efron To Endure Ravenous Wild Dogs & Mysterious Intruders In Survival Thriller GOLD
Mike Sprague
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Zac Efron (Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile) will star in Blumhouse’s remake of Stephen King’s Firestarter. And if that’s not enough Efron for you, today we learned he will also star in director Anthony Hayes’s survival thriller Gold.
The shoot is set to kick off in Australia this month on the film which follows two strangers traveling through a desert who stumble across the biggest gold nugget ever found. They hatch a plan to protect and excavate their bounty with one man leaving to secure the necessary equipment. The other man remains and must endure harsh desert elements, ravenous wild dogs and mysterious intruders, whilst battling the sinking suspicion that he has been abandoned to his own fate.
Hayes (Animal Kingdom) will co-star in the film based on a screenplay he co-wrote with Polly Smyth. Hayes will produce with John Schwarz and Michael Schwarz.
Michael Schwarz said: “Gold is a classic morality tale told in an excitingly modern fashion, and the creative symmetry between Anthony and Zac has everyone involved incredibly excited to bring this film to global audiences.”
Hayes adds: “This is an exciting, gripping and timely tale about greed, humanity, who we are, what we’ve done to the world and where we are heading if we aren’t careful. To have Zac Efron as my main man on this film is an absolute gift and to see what he is creating already is like nothing we’ve seen from him before. I can’t wait to deliver this bold, visceral and cinematic film to audiences around the world.”
Executive producers are Andrew Mann, Peter Touche, Simon Williams, Paul Wiegard, Will Clarke, Andy Mayson, Nick Forward and Mike Runagall.
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