Vince Vaugh & S. Crain Zahler.
Dallas Sonnier, newly appointed to the Dallas Film Society Board, will be keeping busy for the remainder of the year, as he is currently prepping an upcoming Vince Vaughn film. The movie is entitled “Brawl in Cell Block 99” and is produced by Caliber Media which Sonnier co-founded. The screenplay is written by S. Crain Zahler, who also wrote “Bone Tomahawk” starring Kurt Russell and Matthew Fox. Bone Tomahawk was also produced by Sonnier and was nominated for two Independent Spirit awards earlier this year.
In the upcoming movie Vaugh plays a former boxer whose life is in shambles, having lost his job and his marriage is on the brink. Making a bad decision to work as a drug courier he finds himself in a gunfight with police officers and lands in prison. There he is forced to commit acts of violence which turns the prison into an even more dangerous battleground.
The film is set to begin production at the end of the summer.
ABOUT DALLAS SONNIER
Dallas Sonnier is an entrepreneur and film industry professional who co-founded Caliber Media, which recently produced the two-time Independent Spirit Award nominee BONE TOMAHAWK starring Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox, and Richard Jenkins. Sonnier is currently prepping BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99, starring Vince Vaughn, as well as a reboot of the classic horror franchise PUPPET MASTER. Sonnier previously produced several indie horror films such as DARK WAS THE NIGHT, BAD MILO, SOME KIND OF HATE and CONDEMNED. As managers, Caliber was instrumental in the packaging of films like BACHELORETTE, the Academy-Award® winning short film CURFEW, and TV projects such as the Golden Globe®-winning Mozart in the Jungle (currently airing on Amazon), and The Path (currently airing on Hulu).
