Overview

• Taylor Kitsch will portray Jim Estelle, the Texas Department of Corrections chief caught in an 11-day hostage crisis at Huntsville Penitentiary.
• Peter Landesman, director of Concussion and Parkland, is at the helm of the independent production.
• Kevin Sheridan penned the screenplay with revisions by Landesman, basing the story on Harper’s book Eleven Days in Hell.
• Producers Vincent Newman and Vance Howard are overseeing the film’s development.
• Principal photography is scheduled to begin in Texas this September, and no release date has been announced.