Narcopolis

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU33nMkKygA

EXCLUSIVE: “The future is a fix” in Narcopolis, a thriller set in a city where the manufacture and use of all recreational drugs is legal. Director Justin Trefgarne, a former story editor at Working Title Films who has also worked with the UK’s Ruby Films, Ridley Scott Associates and Film4, makes his feature helming debut here. Heading into the AFM, Narcopolis, which employed an unconventional financing method, has been acquired by the UK’s Altitude Film Distribution and by Canada’s Mongrel Media. (See trailer above.)

In the film, Elliot Cowan (Da Vinci’s Demons) plays Frank Grieves, a police officer and former addict, who is called to investigate an unidentifiable corpse and pulled into a world infected with corruption and in which the only person upon whom he can rely is himself. Jonathan Pryce also stars with Elodie Yung (GI Joe: Retaliation), Harry Lloyd (Game Of Thrones), Cosima Shaw (V For Vendetta), Molly Gaisford (Unborn), Adam Sims (Band Of Brothers), Josef Altin (Les Misérables), Gethin Anthony (Game Of Thrones), Nicky Henson (Syriana), James Callis (Battlestar Galactica) and Robert Bathurst (Downton Abbey).

Very interesting the way this movie was funded and kind of came out of no where, Love the look of the film definitely something I would watch. Definitely has that Blade Runner feel.

http://deadline.com/2014/11/narcopolis-trailer-afm-sales-video-1201273039/

 

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The US rights to Director Justin Trefgarne’s science fiction thriller Narcopolis has been acquired by IFC Midnight. Set in a future city where all drugs are legal and sold by licensed companies, the story follows an elite police unit tasked with cracking down on black market dealers. When officer Frank Grieves is removed from a case investigating an unidentified murder victim, he discovers that legalization has come at a high price. What follows is a battle over a new street drug between those who seek to destroy it, and those who think it could be exploited for good purposes.

Written by Trefgarne, Narcopolis stars Elliot Cowan, Elodie Yung, and Jonathan Pryce. It’s produced by by Daniel-Konrad Cooper, Paula Turnbull, Eldar Tuvey and Trefgarne, and exec produced by John Cameron, Lisa Carroll, Simon Cole, Cowan, John Edwards, Jonathan Elstein, Liat Elstein, Roy Tuvey and Jim Walker. The deal was negotiated by Nate Bolotin of XYZ Films working on behalf of the filmmakers, and by Arianna Bocco, SVP of Acquisitions from Sundance Selects/IFC Films.