There are a lot of people out there who’d love Samuel L. Jackson to be the US President. Now they’ll get to see that come true, on-screen at least, as Variety reports that Jackson has signed up to be the Pres in the thriller, Big Game.
Finnish Rare Exports director Jalmari Helander will make his English-language debut with the movie, which ‘tells the story of Oskari, a shy, nervous 13-year-old boy, who must prove his manhood by spending a day and a night alone in the forest. That night, Air Force One is shot down by terrorists and Oskari discovers the US President in an escape pod. With the terrorists closing in, Oskari and the President must team up to survive.’
Altitude, the company behind the movie, describes it as an “adrenaline-fuelled action adventure that takes the universal rite-of-passage theme of iconic 80s films, such as E.T. and The Karate Kid, and brilliantly combines this with the visceral thrill of high-concept action classics such as Die Hard and Taken.”
That’s quite a mix of movies, and I’d be willing to bet it’s not really like any of those film.
Filming will start this summer in Finland and Germany.