Roadside Attractions and Samuel Goldwyn Films have acquired all US rights to Bring Him to Me, a captivating thriller about a getaway driver who must battle his conscience and drive a young and unsuspecting passenger to an uncertain fate. The film will open in select theaters and on digitalon January 19, 2024.
Written by Tom Evans and directed by Luke Sparke, Bring Him to Me is about a mild-mannered Driver (Pepper) working for a mob boss. His conscience is tested when he is asked to collect a young and unsuspecting new crew member known as Passenger (Costa) one week after a violent robbery. What Passenger doesn’t know is that he is being driven to an ambush. With repercussions of the robbery on their tail, Driver’s conscience is about to be tested as loyalties and morals collide.
Bring Him to Me stars Golden Globe® Nominee and Emmy® Award-Winner, Barry Pepper (Saving Private Ryan, The Green Mile, Maze Runner), Academy Award®nominee and Golden Globe® winner Rachel Griffiths (Six Feet Under, Brothers and Sisters), Golden Globe® nominee Sam Neill (Jurassic Park, Peaky Blinders, The Piano), Jamie Costa (The Beech Boys, The Cowboy and the Samari), Liam McIntyre (Spartacus: Vengeance and Spartacus: War of the Damned) and Zac Garred (Seance).
“My goal with Bring Him to Me was to bring a talented team together to make a suspenseful and action-packed film that explores loyalty and moral dilemmas. I’m thrilled that audience will get to see the film in theaters,” says director Luke Sparke
Co-Presidents of Roadside Attractions, Howard Cohen and Eric d’Arbeloff says: “Luke Sparke has delivered a classic crime saga with especially juicy and iconic roles for veterans Barry Pepper and Rachel Griffiths to sink their teeth into, as, respectively, a conflicted criminal and his ruthless crime boss.”
Produced by Carmel Imrie and Carly Sparke of Sparke Film, along with Zac Garred as co-producer. Executive producers are Luke Sparke, Geoff Imrie, Sean Virgin and Martin Walton.
The acquisition was negotiated by Roadside Attractions Co-President Howard Cohen, and Kirk D’Amico of Myriad Pictures negotiated on behalf of the filmmakers. Photon Films will release the film in Canada. Myriad Pictures has world sales rights (excluding ANZ) and will be screening the film at AFM.
About Samuel Goldwyn Films
Samuel Goldwyn Films is a major, independently owned and operated motion-picture company that develops, produces and distributes innovative feature films. The company distributed the 2021 Academy Award®-winning film Another Round, the 2021 Academy Award®-nominated film The Man who Sold His Skin and the 2022 Academy Award®-nominated film Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom. Upcoming films include In the Land of Saints and Sinners starring Liam Neeson and Kerry Condon, The Three Musketeers – Part I: D’Artagnan, and Cobweb from Jee-woon Kim.
About Myriad Pictures
Myriad Pictures is a leading independent entertainment company specializing in production, financing, and worldwide distribution of feature films and television content. Since 1998, Myriad has been distributing its vast library and diverse slate of feature films to audiences around the world. The current slate includes the Lionsgate/Grindstone release, The Re-Education of Molly Singer starring Britt Robertson, Nico Santos, Jaime Pressly, and Ty Simpkins; Rebecca Snow’s The Boy in the Woods starring Richard Armitage and Jett Klyne; and Tracy Laymon’s Bob Trevino Likes It starring Barbie Ferreira and John Leguizamo. Myriad Pictures was founded by Kirk D’Amico and is based in Los Angeles. For more information visit: MyriadPictures.com
About Roadside Attractions
Since its founding in 2003, Roadside Attractions films have grossed over $500 million and garnered 23 Academy Award® nominations. Recent releases include Independent Spirit Award winning Emily The Criminal starring Aubrey Plaza, Paul Weitz’ revenge comedy Moving On starring Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, Ray Romano’s directorial debut Somewhere in Queens starring Romano, Laurie Metcalf, Jennifer Esposito and Sebastian Maniscalco, and Bill Pohlad’s Dreamin’ Wildstarring Academy Award® Winner Casey Affleck, Noah Jupe, and Grammy® and Golden Globe® Nominee Zooey Deschanel.
Upcoming films from Roadside include the Sundance winning documentary Beyond Utopia, directed by Madeleine Gavin and Neil Burger’s The Marsh King’s Daughterstarring Daisy Ridley and Ben Mendelsohn.
The company has released such critical and commercial hits as The Courier, Rita Moreno: Just A Girl Who Decided To Go For It, The Alpinist, Judy, The Peanut Butter Falcon, I Can Only Imagine, Manchester by the Sea, Beatriz at Dinner, Love & Friendship, Hello, My Name Is Doris, Mr. Holmes, Love & Mercy, A Most Wanted Man,Dear White People, The Skeleton Twins, All Is Lost, Mud, Winter’s Bone, The Cove, Arbitrage, Margin Call and Super Size Me. Roadside is known for innovative strategies that maximize the value of their films via theatrical box office success.