Aaron Eckhart has signed up for a film that sounds like it could be fascinating, although has a plot which if not handled carefully could result in a bit of a mess – it’ll be fascinating to see which is it. He’s taken the lead in a psychological thriller called Fade Out.
Eckhart will be screenwriter Jim Connelly, who is just getting over a nervous breakdown, being cared for by his glamorous wife Anne in a tropical beachfront villa. He begins to write a screenplay about a jealous husband who murders his unfaithful wife. However, his own paranoia causes fiction and reality to blur. As the events in Jim’s screenplay appear to materialise in real-life, he becomes a suspect in his own wife’s disappearance and must outrun the police as he pieces together the puzzle, which seems to have come from his own mind.
Producer Anthony Bregman commented, “Fade Out is as irresistible as a potent Caribbean cocktail: a twisted mind-bending thriller set in a sun-soaked beach town — from a smart script full of surprising twists, and with true artists in front of and behind the camera.”
Robert Salerno is set to direct from a script by Michael Cristofer. Production is slated to begin next February in Puerto Rico.
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