Overview

• Kitsch will portray Jim Estelle, head of the Texas Department of Corrections, as he faces inmate leader Federico Carrasco during an 11-day hostage standoff at Huntsville Penitentiary.
• Peter Landesman will direct the independent survival thriller based on Harper’s nonfiction book, with Kevin Sheridan writing the initial screenplay and Landesman handling revisions.
• Producers Vincent Newman and Vance Howard have joined the project to bring the tense true-story drama to the screen.
• Principal photography is slated to begin in Texas this September, marking the transition from planning to active shooting.
• The announcement leverages Kitsch’s growing profile in gritty true-story roles and Landesman’s experience helming fact-based films.