Overview
- Industry outlets reported Thursday that Harlin is officially attached to direct Evac, an action-thriller announced in early development.
- The film’s official synopsis says a medical specialist and a wounded inmate must survive overnight after their medical helicopter crash-lands in a volatile prison yard while a prison conspiracy unfolds.
- Screenwriter Sidney King, credited for Skyfire, wrote the script and producers Michael Roccio and Robert Dean are leading the project for uStudios with Dawn Bursteen and Alan B. Bursteen of Milestone Studios as producing partners.
- Casting discussions are under way and the producers are targeting a 2027 start to filming, but the project remains early-stage and key details such as cast and release plans may change as development proceeds.
- Harlin and producers describe the movie as a tight, high-octane theatrical thriller that builds on his past large-scale suspense work and aims to appeal to mainstream action audiences.