EXCLUSIVE: Jeff Fahey (Misplaced, Alita: Battle Angel) has signed on to star within the Salvadoran civil conflict drama Fireflies at El Mozote, which begins principal images on location in El Salvador in November.
Written and directed by Ernesto Melara, the flick is about in Eighties El Salvador and recounts the story of a 10-year-old boy who survives the bloodbath of his village and his quest to deliver justice to his useless household in the midst of a bloody civil conflict.
Elias Axume is producing for Premiere Leisure, which handles worldwide gross sales, with Moctesuma Esparza (Selena, The Milagro Beanfield Battle), and Bob Yari (Crash, The Illusionist, Yellowstone). Premiere’s Carlos Rincon is an govt producer. Arturo Menendez is co-producing.
Fahey is greatest recognized for roles in movies like Clint Eastwood’s White Hunter Black Coronary heart. He has additionally been an everyday fixture in Robert Rodriguez’s movies, together with Planet Terror, Machete, and Alita: Battle Angel, and has made frequent TV appearances on reveals like Misplaced.
Paz Vega (Rambo: Final Blood) was beforehand introduced as a lead within the movie.
Fireflies is one in every of three Salvadorian-set movies to be greenlit by Premiere alongside Toque De Queda and The Unbelievable Journey of Elba.
Latest Premiere unique productions embody Palido with Kellan Lutz, Shrapnel with Jason Patric, and Black Warrant with Tom Berenger and Cam Gigandet.
Fahey is repped by Jeff Goldberg Administration and VOX Inc.
