EXCLUSIVE:
Ex-UFC Middleweight titleholder turned actor Michael Bisping
Red Sonja
) has joined forces with Storyman Pictures to establish Punch It Films, a new venture focused on production and financing. This collaboration will kick off at this year’s Cannes Market.
The firm will operate from Los Angeles. Their initial lineup features an action thriller.
Atlas King
, penned and helmed by Nika Agiashvili (
Daughter of the Wolf
). Bisping and George Finn head up the movie. Sarah Wayne Callies plays a role in it as well.
The Walking Dead
and Emmy Award-winning actress Anne Winters (
13 Reasons Why
) have also become part of the cast.
Atlas King
Follows a tough former fighter (played by Bisping) returning to his hometown after years away to pay respects to his late best friend and tie up loose ends. When he reconnects with his godson (Finn), a young enforcer involved with a crime organization, they form an uncertain partnership. Together, they plan a daring robbery aimed at breaking free from the control of a vicious mafia leader.
Nika Agiashvili is leading the production along with regular collaborators John Edward Lee and George Finn from Storyman, with Michael Bisping also onboard as a producer, and Giga Chikadze serving as an associate producer. Filming is scheduled to take place this summer in downtown Los Angeles.
“Storytelling and fighting aren’t so different. Both are about conflict, struggle, and heart. With Punch It Films, we will be bringing that to the big screen,” Bisping said in a statement.
Storyman Pictures is a financially backed film production company located in Los Angeles. Established by directors Nika Agiashvili and George Finn, producer John Edward Lee later became part of their group. Their portfolio encompasses movies such as “The Harsh Life of Veronica Lambert” from 2009, “Green Story” released in 2012, and “Tbilisi, I Love You,” which came out in 2014.
Callies is represented by Gersh and More/Medavoy Management. Winters is represented by Brave Artists Management and Yorn, Levine, Barnes, Krintzman, Rubenstein, Kohner, Endlich, Goodell & Gellman.
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