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We have some great news about an upcoming crime-thriller called Body Brokers. Check out all the details down below and stay tuned for more updates as they come!
This film is being written and directed by John Swab. His first feature was Let Me Make You A Martyr and his newest one is Run With The Hunted. The cast includes Academy Award-winner Melissa Leo (The Fighter), SAG Award-winner and Emmy-nominee Michael K. Williams (HBO’s The Wire, Netflix’s When They See Us), Frank Grillo (The Purge), Alice Englert (Beautiful Creatures, and Jack Kilmer (The Stanford Prison Experiment).
The film is being produced by Jeremy M. Rosen (Dog Eat Dog, Charlie Says), Robert Ogden Barnum as well as Swab for Roxwell Films. The latest Roxwell Films’ release, Charlie Says (directed by Mary Harron of American Psycho and starring Hannah Murray and Matt Smith), premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival and was released domestically by IFC Films.
Synopsis for Body Brokers
This is a true and untold story of the multibillion-dollar drug and alcohol treatment scheme where former drug addicts and dealers become millionaires as fly-by-night “body brokers”, recruiting other addicts to seek treatment and selling these patients off to facilities paying the highest price. Utah (Jack Kilmer) and his girlfriend Opal (Alice Englert), are drug addicts living on the streets in rural Ohio.
After getting recruited by body broker Wood (Michael Kenneth Williams), and offered treatment in Los Angeles, Wood takes Utah under his wing and introduces him to treatment center mogul Vin (Frank Grillo). Wood and Vin bring Utah in on their lucrative and illegal dealings, where saving lives comes second to the bottom line. Melissa Leo will take on the role as the resident treatment center shrink, Dr. White.
Body Brokers is set to commence principal photography in August 2019. CAA Media Finance will represent domestic sales on the film, with Voltage Pictures handling international sales.
