Edge of Tomorrow and Into the Woods star Emily Blunt is attached to play the lead role in bull-riding drama Bronco Belle from first-time writer-director Khurram Longhi.
Blunt is set to star as Raylene Jackson, a stubborn but vulnerable and determined American woman with a chip on her shoulder who dreams of becoming a champion bull-rider.
Supported by an old-time trainer out to redeem himself and a hustler promoter, Jackson battles through heartbreak, prejudice, broken dreams and bones to get reach the top of the sport.
The Hollers producer Allyson Seegar will produce alongside Adulthood and Kidulthood producer George Isaac.
Embankment Films will launch the project among buyers in advance of the Cannes market, with the team aiming to shoot in autumn 2015. CAA handles domestic rights.
Longi told ScreenDaily how he was inspired to write the script after a recent road-trip across America led him...
Blunt is set to star as Raylene Jackson, a stubborn but vulnerable and determined American woman with a chip on her shoulder who dreams of becoming a champion bull-rider.
Supported by an old-time trainer out to redeem himself and a hustler promoter, Jackson battles through heartbreak, prejudice, broken dreams and bones to get reach the top of the sport.
The Hollers producer Allyson Seegar will produce alongside Adulthood and Kidulthood producer George Isaac.
Embankment Films will launch the project among buyers in advance of the Cannes market, with the team aiming to shoot in autumn 2015. CAA handles domestic rights.
Longi told ScreenDaily how he was inspired to write the script after a recent road-trip across America led him...
- 5/5/2015
- by [email protected] (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
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