African refugees struggling to reach Europe receive an unpleasant welcome in Uwe Boll’s Run. The action thriller from the renegade German director of First Shift and BloodRayne dropped its first official trailer today, shared exclusively with The Hollywood Reporter (see below).
Oscar-nominees Amanda Plummer (Pulp Fiction) and Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips) star, alongside an impressive ensemble cast that includes James Russo, Ulrich Thomsen, Kristen Renton, Daniel Sauli, Marcus Henderson and newcomer Hannah Balogun.
The feature follows a group of migrants traveling by boat across the Mediterranean Sea toward Italy. When the vessel goes off course, tensions rise, leading to violence as the migrants turn on the smugglers. Upon reaching shore, some passengers evade capture, setting off a series of events throughout the day that escalate into further conflict, intertwining the lives of migrants, locals, and tourists.
Plummer plays a local U.S. expat who tries to help the migrants, putting her on a collision course with another American on the island, the anti-migrant hothead, played by Russo. Boll wrote, directed and produced Run, which was shot on the Croatian island of Krk last spring.
Executive producer Michael Roesch is handling world sales for the film through his German outfit Kinostar, which is presenting Run to buyers at the European Film Market in Berlin. Run is currently in negotiations for a U.S. release.
Boll, who temporarily retired from filmmaking to run Bauhaus, a high-end German restaurant in Vancouver, went behind the camera again for First Shift, a New York cop drama starring Kristen Renton and Gino Anthony Pesi that proved a surprise hit on Paramount+, debuting on the streamer at number 2 last December. Boll is currently in production on the vigilante thriller The Dark Knight, starring Armie Hammer.
Check out the Run trailer below:
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