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Mel Gibson and Tye Sheridan to star in thriller Black Flies

February 2, 2019 by Amie Cranswick

A Prayer Before Dawn director Jean-Stephane Sauvaire has enlisted Mel Gibson (Blood Father) and Tye Sheridan (Ready Player One) to star in his next project Black Flies, a thriller set up at Mad River Pictures.

According to Variety, Black Flies follows “a young paramedic, Ollie Cross (Sheridan), navigating his first year on the job. He’s partnered with Rutkovsky (Gibson), an experienced medic who thrusts Ollie into the harsh realities of New York’s inner-city streets. Amidst high crime rates, homelessness, and widespread drug use, Ollie finds his perspective on life and death beginning to shift.”

Black Flies is based upon the novel of the same name by Shannon Burke, with a script from Ryan King which featured on this year’s Black List of the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood.

SEE ALSO: Mel Gibson and Sean Penn star in trailer for The Professor and the Madman

Gibson has three films incoming in 2019 in Dragged Across Concrete, The Professor and the Madman and Boss Level, while Sheridan reprises his role as Scott Summers/Cyclops this June in the superhero sequel X-Men: Dark Phoenix.

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Black Flies, Mel Gibson, Tye Sheridan

About Amie Cranswick

Amie Cranswick has been part of Flickering Myth’s editorial and management team for over a decade. She has a background in publishing and copyediting and has served as Editor-in-Chief of FlickeringMyth.com since 2023.

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