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Development - ENGLISH - Science-fiction, Thriller - 108 minutes

Log Line

In the closing days of an interplanetary war, a gifted smuggler rescues a life-pod containing two badly beaten women, a half-dead soldier and a whole world of trouble.

Year of production : 2015

Director(s) : Mark Anthony GALLUZZO
Writer(s) : Mark Anthony GALLUZZO, Steven CHATTERTON
Cast : Lynn COLLINS

Producer(s) : Mark Anthony GALLUZZO (MAGFILM), Rebecca KNAPP (The Content Providers )

Synopsis

In the distant future, a long and bloody war is coming to a close. The fighting is technically over, but there is still a fortune to be made in the occupied-zone. Rumor is, a package is being smuggled out by a group of gangsters. Only one guy can do it. The Engineer. Name’s Ethan McKay. Mad genius with engines yet hard as nails. Small problem, our Engineer is in a prison camp. The underworld pulls some strings and busts him out. They also give him a ship. His old ship. His masterpiece that legend has it can disappear. That’s good because he’s running right at a Federal blockade, and if he’s not ‘dark’, he’s dead.
He’s two weeks out now. Hot cargo in his hold. Time to get his magic engine running again. The ship has been laid up for the three years he was in the clink. Even dark, he’s not sure if he can make it through the blockade, but it beats rotting in a correction camp. As he makes repairs, the golden rules of smuggling are never far from his thoughts: 1) don’t deviate from the plan, 2) always protect the package and 3) No matter what happens, never break cover. Makes the boss nervous. Makes him think you’re gonna run. The rules are scripture for a veteran like Ethan… that is until he encounters a distress signal in deep space. Here the golden rules of smuggling bump into the iron law of space – Never leave a ship in distress, especially a life-pod.
Against his better judgment, he alters course and brings in the pod. Inside are two women – badly beaten – and a gravely wounded Federal soldier. They are in stasis. Out cold. Life support’s last-ditch effort to keep them alive long enough for help to arrive. The Engineer brings them aboard his ship and that’s when the dilemma begins… for one woman is a Federal Officer and the other her prisoner. Question is which one is which?

Production

Country(ies) : UNITED KINGDOM, SERBIA, IRELAND

Start of shooting : May 2015


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