Bad Samaritan
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PRESS KIT Starring: David Tennant, Robert Sheehan, Carlito Olivero, Kerry Condon, Jacqueline Byers Director Dean Devlin Writer Brandon Boyce Producers: Dean Devlin, Rachel Olschan-Wilson, Marc Roskin Executive Producers: Brandon Lambdin, Carsten H.W. Lorenz Rated: R For additional information, please contact: Los Angeles Alison Deknatel – [email protected] – 310.967.7247 Margaret Gordon – [email protected] – 310.854.4726 New York Omar Gonzales – [email protected] – 212.373.0116 Leigh Wolfson – [email protected] – 212.373.6149 Susan Engel – [email protected] – 212.373.0114 Nina Baron – [email protected] – 212.373.6150 (Last revise: 3.7.18) 1 Logline Bad Samaritan is a terrifying cautionary tale of two thieves uncovering more than what they bargained for when breaking into a house they thought would be an easy score. After making a shocking discovery, they must choose to run and hide, or face the killer whose dark secrets they have exposed. SHORT SYNOPSIS Two young men who valet cars at a local restaurant develop a clever scam to burglarize the houses of customers while they eat. Things go smoothly until one robs the wrong customer and discovers a woman being held captive. Afraid of going to prison he leaves the woman and returns the car to the restaurant. Filled with guilt, he makes a call to the police, who find nothing when they investigate. Now, the valet must endure the wrath of the kidnapper who seeks revenge on him, all while desperately trying to find and rescue the captive woman he left behind. LONG SYNOPSIS SEAN and his friend DEREK hold honest jobs as valets at a local restaurant in Portland, OR. At least, that’s what they tell people. Their real money comes from a scheme they run on the side. When a customer shows up in an expensive car, one of the friends will keep an eye on the customer in the restaurant while the other uses the car’s GPS to find the customer’s house. And then they rob it. Nothing crazy– an old piece of jewelry, a couple checks from the checkbook – only things that the customer wouldn’t miss right away. And by the time they do? It’s too late. The unknowing victims probably don’t even remember those nice valets. Things run smoothly until one night, when a particularly nasty customer rolls up in a flashy Maserati. CALE ERENDREICH is his name. Self-important, rude, and rich as hell – they can’t wait to rob this guy. Sean follows the car’s GPS to Cale’s house. He finds a no-limit credit card and a gold Rolex immediately, and knows this is a serious jackpot. He’s about to leave but then notices something strange: a huge door with multiple heavy locks. A door like that must have something valuable behind it. Sean picks the locks and finds a pitch-black room. He flips on a computer monitor for light. Its eerie glow reveals a shocking discovery – a WOMAN, gagged and bound to a chair with chains. The terrified woman begs him to release her. He searches the house for something to cut the chains, when Derek calls him in a panic. Cale wants his car. He has to bring it back. Right now. Sean is torn apart by this decision. Does he stay and help the woman? He’d go to jail for all the burglaries. But he can’t just leave her there. Can he? In the haste of the moment, and with his partner yelling at him on the phone, he makes his choice and sets their fates in motion. He clumsily replaces her gag, promises to call the police, and he leaves her tied to that chair. Sean returns Cale’s car and calls the police immediately. But Cale is no ordinary psychopath. He’s capable, brilliant, and ruthless. By the time the cops show up, Cale has invited over a lady friend to create an alibi for himself. And he has moved the bound woman and cleaned up any trace of her. With the police out of the way, Cale turns the tables on Sean. He not only finds Sean and gets him fired from his job, but also goes after his parents and wreaks havoc with their employers. He hacks Sean’s bank account and drains his life savings. He finds naked photos Sean took of his girlfriend and posts them on social media. This guy is determined to make Sean’s life a living hell, and he’s frighteningly good at it. Reeling from these attacks and racked with guilt over the awful choice he made, Sean must not only deal with the consequences, but must desperately try to find and rescue the captive woman he left behind. What follows is a thrilling and life-threatening pursuit, where Sean’s role of hunter soon changes to hunted. 2 Director’s Statement Dean Devlin Bad Samaritan is a thrilling cat and mouse story of a petty thief who stumbles upon a woman being held captive. I had been wanting to work with Brandon Boyce ever since he wrote the screenplay for “Apt Pupil”. So when he sent me his spec script for Bad Samaritan and asked my advice, I told him “my advice to you is to sell me this script immediately and let’s make this together.” Having read it, I immediately fell in love with the story, and I was drawn to the ethical dilemma of our lead character. While his ethics are loose in his everyday life, he still believed he had a moral code. But after he discovers a woman in mortal jeopardy and leaves her behind, he’s mortified with himself for making such a horrible decision. He can’t live with the idea that he is a horrible coward who would abandon an innocent person in danger. When it comes down to it, he’s willing to risk everything, including his own life, to rectify his terrible decision. In the end, the biggest driving force behind this movie was passion. We were lucky enough to not need a studio to back us; we were simply able to say, “We love this movie, we love these actors, we’re going to make it.” Bad Samaritan takes everything we’ve been building at Electric Entertainment and focuses it on one project. This isn’t a studio film, this doesn’t have a giant machine behind it, it has the people in this building and on set who put their blood, sweat, and tears into making this picture. And this movie ended up being one of those lucky things where I got my dream cast and got to film in my home away from home in Portland, OR. Aside from the behind the scenes storytelling of how this movie got made and why it got made and who worked on it, it’s like rooting for your family to succeed and it holds a great deal of emotional weight for me. 3 CAST BIOS DAVID TENNANT (Cale Erendreich) Over his twenty-seven yearlong acting career, David Tennant has left a trail of memorable characters over an expansive and diverse array of film, television and on-stage credits. Currently, Tennant is in production on Amazon Studios’ upcoming television series “Good Omens.” The show, based on Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s book of the same name, is set in 2018 on the brink of an apocalypse as humanity prepares for a final judgment. Tennant will play ‘Crowley’ alongside Michael Sheen’s ‘Aziraphale.’ The show will consist of six one-hour episodes. Tennant, also currently voices ‘Scrooge McDuck’ in Disney XD’s animation television series, “Duck Tales.” In December 2017, Tennant voiced the character ‘Angus’ in 20th Century Fox’s Ferdinand. The film was released nationwide on December 15, 2017. He can be seen in the upcoming Bad Samaritan, the next film from Dean Devlin's Electric Entertainment. The film, directed by Devlin, also stars Robert Sheehan and Carlito Olivero. Tennant recently starred in Daisy Aitkens’ romantic-comedy You, Me and Him, with co-stars Lucy Punch and Faye Marsay which was also released in December of last year. In February 2017, Tennant starred as the world-renowned Scottish psychiatrist ‘RD Laing’ in Robert Mullan’s Mad to be Normal alongside Elizabeth Moss. The story follows Dr. Laing and his unique community at Kingsley Hall, East London during the 1960’s. Tennant is most recently known for his role as detective ‘Alec Hardy,’ on the critically acclaimed ITV crime series “Broadchurch.” Tennant’s character was brought to the small town of Broadchurch to investigate the murder of an 11-year-old local boy. In its second season, “Broadchurch” was nominated and won several awards, including the 2014 BAFTA TV Award for Best Drama Series. Also in 2017, Tennant was seen on-stage as Don Juan in Patrick Marber’s “Don Juan in Soho.” Loosely based on Moliére's tragicomedy “Don Juan”, this hilarious modern update transports the action to contemporary London and follows the final adventures of its debauched protagonist - a cruel seducer who lives only for pleasure. In 2016, Tennant was seen on-stage as the title character in Shakespeare’s “Richard II” as a part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s “King & Country: Shakespeare’s Great Cycle Of Kings” series. The series marked the celebration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death and ran at the BAM Harvey Theater for a 6- week period. In November 2015, Tennant starred as the villainous ‘Dr.