[Press release from the Greater Cleveland Film Commission.]
The Greater Cleveland Film Commission is excited to announce that principal photography for the film WAKE will begin on February 16, 2015. The film stars Golden Globe© winner Bruce Willis (RED, Die Hard, Moonlighting) and Oscar© winner Ben Kingsley (Sexy Beast, Gandhi), with additional cast to be announced shortly. It will be directed by John Pogue (U.S Marshals, Ghost Writer) and produced by Michael Benaroya (Lawless), Tobin Armbrust (Rush), David Alpert (The Walking Dead) and Chris Cowles (Autobahn). Frank Hildebrand (Into the Wild) is executive producing.
Red (Bruce Willis) is a hardened sociopath with a dark past. After years spent away, Red returns home to his remote family-run island inn to bury his brother Sean. A changed man, he is confronted by a family unable to forget his troubled youth and forgive. But when the inn is attacked by a team of mercenaries intent on gaining something hidden within, the brutal person within that Red has worked so hard to eradicate must use his ruthless skills to defend himself- and maybe even do some good for others while he's at it. One of several heavily armed attackers, Kole, will stop at nothing to achieve his own means to an end, but as the body count racks up, Red's psychopathic disregard for his own safety makes planning any attack more difficult than anticipated.
