Donald Sutherland (Puppet Masters, Mr. Harrigan’s Phone) will star in the coming-of-age genre thriller Heart Land, a rare U.K. and New Zealand treaty co-production, notes Variety.
Directed by David Carson (“Star Trek: Generations,” “Unstoppable”), Heart Land is billed as 28 Days Later meets “Lord of the Flies.”
“The story is centered around two disparate bands of children struggling to survive in the brutal landscape of a pestilent America, where adults have become infected by a mysterious plague and only children are immune. Left to their own devices, the youthful survivors must rely on primal instinct and dwindling resources to fend off the raging infected.”
The pic is centered around a character named Jonah, who is the grandson of Rick (Sutherland).
“Rick is the emotional heart and anchor of Heart Land,” says Carson. “And I cannot imagine anyone else but Donald Sutherland playing him.
Penned by Matthew A. Collins (“All That Glitters”), the film is currently being filmed in New Zealand and Quebec, Canada, with post-production set to take place in the U.K.
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