Inanna Sarkis, Gregg Sulkin, Timothy Granaderos & Paris Berelc Sign For Adam Green’s Hot Air Balloon Thriller ‘Ascent’ Ahead Of Malta Shoot – EFM
EXCLUSIVE: Inanna Sarkis (Marked Men, The Prince, Maintenance Required), Gregg Sulkin (Six Triple Eight, World on Fire), Timothy Granaderos (13 Reasons Why, Runaways) and Paris Berelc (Alexa & Katie) are set to star in survival thriller Ascent by Adam Green (Frozen, Hatchet).
The production, which is set to begin shooting in Malta later this month, follows a group of friends attending a destination wedding in Europe who find themselves stranded on a hot air balloon 3,000 feet above the ground.
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“I’m incredibly excited to be returning to the survival thriller genre,” said Green. “Ascent’s story about a recreational activity gone terribly wrong is going to play with people’s real life fears and be a total thrill ride for the audience.”
The film is being produced by Simple House Films’ and is the first title to be sold under its recently announced international sales unit, spearheaded by Anastazja Bankowska.
The sales and distribution veteran was previously Global Sales Executive at Kino Swiat, a leading Polish distributor and part of Canal+ Group, and had held senior positions
“The film is a high intensity thriller, set entirely in real time,” said Simple House Films’ Volodymyr Artemenko. “The gripping and anxiety ridden experience will be captured for the screen by a talented and creative team.”
Simple House Films launched last year as an international independent production company, dedicated to developing and producing diverse films, and being a platform for diverse stories and voices.
Artemenko launched international independent production company Simple House Films last year with Addam Bramich and Ryan Hamilton.
Its line-up also features Zipline, a survival thriller currently in post-production being sold worldwide by Black Bear, and Shiver, a screen adaptation of the first book in the best-selling young adult fantasy series written by Maggie Stiefvater.
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