Ton Of Hats and 101 Films International Announce Start of Production on Christian Sesma’s Take Back starring Mickey Rourke, Michael Jai White, Gillian White and James Russo.
Producer/actor Mike Hatton’s production shingle, Ton of Hats has announced final casting and start of production on director Christian Sesma’s (Vigilante Diaries) TAKE BACK, a martial-arts action saga starring Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler); Michael Jai White (Blood and Bone, The Dark Knight); Gillian White (Never Back Down: No Surrender; Days of our Lives)—making their first film appearance together—and James Russo (Django Unchained). Hatton and Sesma just completed production on the Val Kilmer actioner Pay Dirt, shot in the desert over the holidays through pickups this past week.
In Take Back, penned by Zachary Zerries in his feature film-penning debut, Sara (Gillian White) and Brian (Michael Jai White) are living a seemingly perfect life when a mysterious man (Rourke) from Sara’s past kidnaps their teenage daughter. With the help of a small-town sheriff (Russo), the couple races to save their daughter before she’s sold and vanishes into the sex trade.?
“The film will shed some light on human trafficking–a cause Michael and I are both passionate about fighting,” says Gillian White. Indeed, a small genre of films have sprung up addressing the topic, such as 2017’s Trafficked, starring Ashley Judd, Anne Archer and Patrick Duffy. Sesma adds, “we’re incredibly stoked to have this cast—Mickey and Michael are legends, and this promises to establish Gillian White as the next African- American martial arts heroine.”
Take Back is set to go before the cameras in April.
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