Jonathan Rhys Meyers and John Malkovich filmed the pandemic thriller The Survivalist about a society facing a virus outbreak
Jonathan Rhys Meyers and John Malkovich team up for a movie that could get too close to home.
The 43-year-old The Tudors star and 67-year-old iconic actor John Malkovich recently finished filming their new disaster-related feature, The Survivalist, which focuses on the downfall of a one-year-old society. and another half after a virus outbreak.
Rhys Meyers plays a former FBI agent who is on the run from a psychopath and his gang of hunters, played by Malkovich, while trying to save a young woman who is immune to the virus.
Survivor: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, 43, will star alongside 67-year-old John Malkovich in a pandemic thriller following the fall of a society a year and a half after a deadly outbreak of the virus; in 2018
The film, which recently wrapped up filming in the Tri-state area, is produced by Yale Productions, with horror film fan Jon Keeyes as director and an original screenplay by Matthew Rogers.
Jordan Yale Levine and Jordan Beckerman of Yale Productions – who released the latest Chick Fight with Bella Thorne, Malin Akerman and Alec Baldwin released a statement about the project.
“We are thrilled and honored to work with screen legends John Malkovich and Jonathan Rhys Meyers on The Survivalist, an exhilarating, timely and action-packed feature film with stellar performances,” Levine said.
Pandemic proportions: Malkovich plays a psychopath leading a gang of hunters trying to snatch a young woman who is immune to the virus, while Rhys Meyers does his best to protect her
The news of the upcoming film comes just one month after Irish actor Rhys Meyers was charged with a DUI in Malibu on November 8 after he was involved in a minor accident.
The Match Point star was the only one in the car and failed a sobriety test in the field, causing him to be arrested and imprisoned shortly before his release.
Not his first incident with the law, he was detained at LAX in 2018 following a verbal dispute with his wife Mara Lane over an electronic cigarette, although both she and officers claimed that no crime had been committed.
A history of alcohol abuse, most recently he relapsed in 2017 after his wife’s miscarriage, although she called him “the strongest person I know,” adding at the same time.He managed to turn everything ugly and bad in his life into art. ‘
Difficult moments: the new role of the film comes just one month after the Irish actor was accused of a DUI after he crashed his car in Malibu and failed a sobriety test in the field, when he was arrested and closed; imagined with Lane in 2016
Also pushing through the hard times of the past, Malkovich was cheated out of his nearly $ 50 million life savings in the 2008 Bernie Madoff ponzi scheme, which affected a handful of heavyweights in Hollywood, including Kevin Bacon, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Larry King.
Finally, recovering the $ 670,000 investment after the crook’s company was liquidated, the New Pope’s actor told Vanity Fair in 2013, “In all honesty, it was a good life lesson,” he said. that it made him work harder while adjusting his perspective.
“I had to do more paid work for a few years and work all the time. I think it reconnected me to the way most people live all the time. And, unlike many people who were involved in the Madoff issue, I could go back to work and it was good, ”he said cooly.
The couple’s latest adventure, The Survivalist, has not received a release date, but is in post-production.
Work harder: After losing his $ 50 million fortune in the 2008 Madoff scheme, a very nice Malkovich said, “I had to do more paid work for a few years and work all the time.” adding at the same time, ‘it reconnected me to the way most people live all the time’; in the image of 2019