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Vince Vaughn, Liam Hemsworth, and Clark Duke will topline Arkansas, a mafia pic that will mark the first directorial outing for Clark, who also wrote the script. Shooting begins this week in Alabama. Patrick Hibler, Jeff Rice, Martin Sprock, and Storyboard Media are producing the project, which is slated to go before buyers at the upcoming American Film Market via VMI Worldwide.
The film follows a pair of low level drug runners in the Dixie Mafia, Kyle (Hemsworth) and Swin (Duke), who live by the orders of an Arkansas-based drug kingpin Frog (Vaughn), whom theyve never met. But when a deal goes horribly wrong, deadly consequences are soon to rattle the duos routine lives.
JD Beaufils and Julie Paquit from VMI will handle sales.
Those serving as executive producers are Media Finance Capitals David Gilbery and Charles Dorfman, who also funded the film, Don Kee Productions Jason Allison, Michael S. Smith and Franchesca Lantz, along with Hercules Film Fund, which also provided financing, and Rhea Films Paris Kasidokostas-Latsis, Terry Dougas and Jean-Luc De Fanti, as well as Andre Relis, Elisabeth Costa de Beauregard and Phil Kim.
Vaughn, who was known for comedic turns in films like Wedding Crashers, Old School, and Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, has recently taken on more dramatic pics such as Mel Gibsons Hacksaw Ridge and the S. Craig Zahler-helmed crime drama Brawl in Cell Block 99. Repped by WME and Jackoway Austen Tyerman Wertheimer, he recently reteamed with Zahler and Gibson for Dragged Across Concrete, which screened at this past Venice Film Festival.
Hemsworth, best known for starring opposite Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Game franchise, has appeared in films like The Expendables, Independence Day: Resurgence, and up next co-stars in the romantic comedy Isnt It Romantic with Rebel Wilson, and the action-thriller, Killerman from Malik Bader. Hemsworth is repped by Hemsworth is repped by WME and Fourward Management.
Dukes film credits include the Hot Tub Time Machine and Kickass films as well as Bad Moms and The Croods, which hes set to return for the sequel. Duke, who also stars in Showtimes Im Dying Up Here, is repped by WME and Mosaic.
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