{"id":126001,"date":"2025-11-10T16:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T16:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/126001\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T16:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T16:59:08","slug":"aaron-eckhart-thunder-road-renny-harlin-team-on-trial-by-combat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/126001\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Eckhart, Thunder Road, Renny Harlin Team On &#8216;Trial By Combat&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: John Wick producer Thunder Road Pictures has set director Renny Harlin (The Strangers franchise) and star Aaron Eckhart (The Dark Knight) for action-thriller <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/trial-by-combat\/\" id=\"auto-tag_trial-by-combat\" data-tag=\"trial-by-combat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trial By Combat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe film is set in \u201ca near future where \u2018judicial combat\u2019 has become accepted practice and legal trials are settled by gladiatorial combat between elected \u2018Champions\u2019. It\u2019s a system that rewards corruption and punishes the innocent. Eckhart stars as John Porter, a once-great Champion, chewed up and spat out by the judiciary. Galvanised by a fresh injustice, and fuelled with righteous fury, Porter seeks out a judgement day against his old nemesis: a high stakes battle to the death, in the hope of bringing the whole system crashing down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tArchitect has launched international sales ahead of the American Film Market and CAA Media Finance is handling North American rights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tScreenplay comes from Matthew Wilson. Wilson, Harlin and Eckhart previously teamed on action-thriller The Bricklayer and have survival thriller Deep Water upcoming. Die Hard 2 and Cliffhanger director Harlin is also currently in post-production on the third in Lionsgate\u2019s The Strangers trilogy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBasil Iwanyk and Erica Lee produce for Thunder Road. Matthew Wilson and Tarik Heitman are executive producers. Principal photography is being lined up to begin in Europe in Q1, 2026. Additional casting is in process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tArchitect\u2019s Calum Gray said: \u201cTrial By Combat is a pulsating, epic throwback to classic 80s and 90s high concept, character-driven action thrillers. It\u2019s also everything you want from a Thunder Road actioner: grounded, thoughtful and intelligent, but also propulsive, stylised, and kick-ass. Expertly curated to deliver maximum satisfaction for the audience!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEckhart is repped by CAA and Hirsch Wallerstein. Renny Harlin is repped by M3 Global Strategy and Jackoway Austen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: John Wick producer Thunder Road Pictures has set director Renny Harlin (The Strangers franchise) and star Aaron&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[59741,146,85,46,79615],"class_list":["post-126001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-afm","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-trial-by-combat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}