Percy Hynes White & Jeff Wahlberg Lead 'Crime Novella' — SkimNews
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- Omar de Soto wrote and directed "Crime Novella" as his feature directorial debut, casting Percy Hynes White and Jeff Wahlberg as the two leads in a romance crime-thriller about lovers fleeing to save their relationship.
- Roland Emmerich is executive producer of the film, which was shot on 35mm in Albuquerque, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Mexico, with production wrapping this summer.
- Centropolis Entertainment — Emmerich's company — financed the feature, with Marco Shepherd producing alongside Paul Bennett IV of Replica, and Jessica Olthof and Helena Martel Seward as co-producers.
- Zlatko Burić, Bobby Soto, and Ava del Cielo round out the cast; Burić won Best Actor at the 35th European Film Awards for Triangle of Sadness and previously worked with Emmerich on the disaster epic 2012.
- Producers describe the film as "a modern descendant of Badlands and Wild at Heart with a transgressive spirit," and de Soto called the cast "intoxicating onscreen."
Why it matters: Centropolis Entertainment — the company behind Emmerich's disaster epics including 2012 — is financing this 35mm-shot indie debut from de Soto (Emmerich's husband), with producers explicitly positioning the project as a 'modern descendant of Badlands and Wild at Heart.'
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