Based on
the award-winning novel by Tim Winton, “The Riders” will shoot on location on
the Dalmatian Coast and in Paris.
Michael
Hirst, Fancesca Brill and Brooks-Smith adapted the screenplay, which centers on “Australian expatriate Scully(Worthington)who
prepares to start a new family with his wife Jennifer and young daughter Bille
in Ireland. His life is blown apart when he goes to the airport to meet his
family, but finds only Billie and no message from his missing wife. With Billie
in tow, he travels to Korcula and Paris in search of Jennifer : beginning a
journey of self discovery that will alter the course of his life in ways he
could never have envisaged.”
The
Australian/UK co-production, to be delivered January 2014, will be distributed
internationally by Stealth Media Group.
As a
gun-for-hire, Connolly has signed to direct The
Riders, a mystery thriller based on a Tim Winton novel, for
UK-based Stealth Media Group, which holds the international rights, and
producers Robert Fox and Tim White. Sam Worthington will play an Australian
expatriate who prepares to start a new life with his family in Northern Ireland
and finds when he arrives in Belfast that his wife has disappeared. Charles
Dance, Alexandra Maria Lara and Timothy Spall co-star. Shooting is due to start
next February on the island of Korcula on the Dalmatian Coast and in Budapest.
Cinetic Media is shopping the US rights
