Kiefer Sutherland has found his next role. It has been announced that the actor is set to star in the upcoming action-thriller The Winter Kills for XYZ Films. Shooting on the project from director John Stalberg Jr. is slated to begin this coming spring in New Jersey.
According to a logline from XYZ, The Winter Kills will see Sutherland playing a “disgraced cop [that] pursues the serial killer who murdered his partner ten years ago – and has resurfaced, killing again.” No further details about the plot of the film have been released, and Sutherland is the only cast member currently attached to the project. The Winter Kills was written by Ben Floro Carney, and the screenplay was plucked off a recent version of the Black List – an annual report of the most-liked scripts in Hollywood that have yet to be produced. The film, which is described as “Se7en meets Bad Lieutenant,” is produced by Patrick Rizzotti, Paul Johansson, David Guglielmo Wyatt Russell, Oliver Hudson, Stalberg, and XYZ.
The Winter Kills will be introduced to buyers at the upcoming European Film Market, where the film’s creatives will seek to nail down a distributor. Production on the film will also be assisted by Blue Fox Financing, a marketplace recently begun by Rizzotti to help connect filmmakers with sources of debt lenders. Rizzotti himself has produced a number of successful films for major studios, including Pride, The Super, and The Collector, the latter of which would go onto spawn two sequels.
