‘Unmerciful Good Fortune’ Adds Scott Eastwood & Susan Sarandon Opposite Rosario Dawson – AFM
EXCLUSIVE: Scott Eastwood (Fast X, Fate of the Furious, Pacific Rim Uprising), and Oscar winner Susan Sarandon (Best Actress Oscar for Dead Man Walking; Thelma and Louise, The Client) are joining Rosario Dawson in the supernatural thriller Unmerciful Good Fortune, Deadline has learned.
The film is written and directed by veteran film and TV editor Tirsa Hackshaw (Marvel’s Luke Cage, Netflix’s One Piece, Sony’s Spider-Noir) in her feature directorial debut. Unmerciful Good Fortune is adapted from award-winning playwright Edwin Sánchez’s (La Bella Familia, Trafficking in Broken Hearts). Deadline first told you about the project when Dawson boarded.
In Unmerciful Good Fortune, Dawson plays Maritza Cruz, a high-end celebrity attorney, pulled into a headline-making case involving Fatima, a cunning young waitress who is accused of serial poisoning and murdering 28 people. Fatima’s defense takes a darkly mysterious turn when she claims to have the psychic ability to see how someone will die when she touches them and that she is killing people to prevent a “fate worse than death.” An insane claim Maritza rejects as delusional until strange things start happening, and Fatima admits there’s one more victim “still alive.” With the last victim’s life at stake, Maritza begins to question whether the girl is telling the truth as she descends into a cat-and-mouse journey through ganglands, mental asylums, and into the dark heart of a fanatical Santeria cult. A deadly race against time as Maritza finally unravels Fatima’s secret, unveiling a horrifying conspiracy that endangers her own family and sanity.
Tom DeSanto (Transformers, X-Men) is producing the film alongside Dawson, Corey Large (Paradise City, It Follows), and Brian Kirchoff for Rising Tide Entertainment. The film is executive produced by Jordan Wilson, Pia Patatian, Jordan Nott, Jamie Thompson and Hackshaw.
Pia Patatian’s new production and sales company, Noora Films, is handling worldwide rights.
“The cast coming together for this film is extraordinary,” said Tirsa Hackshaw. “ Each of them brings such intelligence, precision, and depth to the story. It really is a murderer’s row of talent, which couldn’t be more perfect for a project that redefines the serial killer genre.”
“Unmerciful Good Fortune is one of those roller coaster rides which is the reason people go to the movies. It lures the audience into a shadowy world they have not seen before, like SE7EN, it’s unpredictable with an ending that people will be talking about for days after,”said Tom DeSanto.
Under his banner 308 Enterprises, Corey Large produced Demian Lichtenstein’s action thriller The Razor’s Edge starring James Franco and Tommy Lee Jones, and Jesse V. Johnson’s CIA action thriller Scorpion starring Aaron Eckhart which are both in post-production. Additional projects include Barry Levinson’s thriller Assassination starring Al Pacino, Jessica Chastain, Brendan Fraser, and Bryan Cranston.
Sarandon is repped by United Agents and Atlas Artists. Eastwood is repped by UTA, LBI Entertainment, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher. Hackshaw is represented by Hillary Bibicoff of Feig Finkel, The Gotham Group, and WPA.
