Jungleland production team announces new co-star, movie details

LOS ANGELES, CA August 27, 2018 – Romulus Entertainment, Big Red Films and Scott Free Productions announce the start of principal photography in Massachusetts on JUNGLELAND. Max WInkler (Flower, Ceremony) directs (and co-wrote) the drama starring Charlie Hunnam (“Sons Of Anarchy,” Lost City of Z, King Arthur), Jack O’Connell (Unbroken, ’71, Starred Up) and Jessica Barden (The Lobster, “The End of the F—ing World”). The original screenplay is by Winkler, Theodore B. Bressman and David Branson Smith. Brad Feinstein (Romulus Entertainment), Jules Daly (Big Red Films) and Kevin Walsh and Ryan Stowell (Scott Free Productions) are producing.

A reluctant bareknuckle boxer (O’Connell) and his brother (Hunnam) must travel across the country for one last fight, but an unexpected travel companion (Barden) exposes the cracks in their bond along the way.

The Director of Photography is Damián García (“Mars,” Güeros), the Production Designer is Jeremy Reed (My Dinner With Hervé, London Fields), the Costume Designer is Michelle Thompson (Flower, Duck: A Film By Kevin Bacon), the Editor is Tomas Vengris (Jonathan, I Don’t Feel At Home In This World Anymore), the Casting Director is Douglas Aibel (Manchester By The Sea, The Grand Budapest Hotel).

JUNGLELAND is shooting on locations in Fall River and New Bedford, MA, Buffalo, NY, Gary, IN, Reno, NV and San Francisco, CA.

Romulus Entertainment is a New York-based independent production company that produces and finances original live-action film and television content. Co-founded by Brad Feinstein and Joseph F. Ingrassia in 2016, Romulus Entertainment provides filmmakers the resources and freedom to help bring their distinctive vision to reality. In just their first year of business, Romulus Entertainment produced and financed a total of seven films. Currently, they are producing and financing several other projects with a slate of various productions in development

Scott Free Productions, formed in 1995, is the film and television production vehicle of acclaimed filmmaker Ridley Scott. The company is responsible for some of the most successful films ever made – including Top Gun, Gladiator, Blade Runner, Alien, American Gangster, Thelma and Louise, Black Hawk Down, True Romance, Spy Game, Man on Fire and Days of Thunder. Scott Free films have received over 60 Academy Award® nominations. In 2017, Scott Free Productions produced Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant, starring Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston and Billy Crudup; Blade Runner 2049, directed by Denis Villeneuve and starring Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling; Murder on the Orient Express, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh opposite Johnny Depp and Michelle Pfeiffer; and most recently, Ridley Scott’s Oscar-nominated All the Money in the World, starring Christopher Plummer, Michelle Williams, and Mark Wahlberg. Other recent releases include the Academy Award® nominated and critically-acclaimed box office phenomenon The Martian starring Matt Damon and Jessica Chastain; and the football drama Concussion starring Will Smith and Alec Baldwin. Upcoming films include Jake Scott’s American Woman, starring Sienna Miller and Christina Hendricks; and Wash Westmoreland’s The Earthquake Bird for Netflix, starring Alicia Vikander, Riley Keough and Jack Huston. Scott Free has offices in Los Angeles and London in conjunction with RSA Films, one of the world’s largest and most successful commercial production houses.

Big Red Films is the production banner of Jules Daly, former longtime president of RSA Films. Big Red’s upcoming slate includes the sci-fi thriller Nemesis, based on the Mark Millar graphic novel, adapted by Stephen Chin for Warner Bros.; Netflix’s War Party, starring Tom Hardy, which will center on real-life Navy SEALs; Gold, to be co-produced by Jessica Biel’s Iron Ocean Productions; Governess, a co-production with Michael Bay’s Bay Films for Warner Bros.; as well as Bootsie’s War and Lost Children of Tuam, to be co-produced by Liam Neeson.