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Vertical Acquires U.S. Rights to Jonathan Hensleigh’s Action Thriller ‘Ice Road: Vengeance’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Vertical has acquired U.S. rights to Jonathan Hensleigh’s action thriller "Ice Road: Vengeance," starring Liam Neeson and Fan Bingbing.
Hensleigh, the writer of “Die Hard with a Vengeance” (1995) and co-writer of “Armageddon” (1998), has returned to direct the sequel from his own script, which follows big rig ice road driver Mike McCann (Liam Neeson) as he travels to Nepal to scatter his late brother’s ashes on Mt. While on a packed tour bus traversing the deadly 12,000 ft. terrain of the infamous Road to the Sky, McCann and his mountain guide (Fan Bingbing) encounter a group of Nepali mercenaries and must fight to save themselves, the busload of innocent travelers and the local villagers’ homeland. Producers are Al Corley, Bart Rosenblatt, and Eugene Musso of Code Entertainment, along with Shivani Rawat and Julie Goldstein of ShivHans Pictures, and director Jonathan Hensleigh, as well as Lee Nelson and David Tish of Envision Media Arts (EMA).
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