Jonathan Rhys Meyers and John Malkovich filmed the pandemic thriller The Survivalist about a society facing a virus outbreak
Jonathan Rhys Meyers and John Malkovich team up for a movie that might be a little too close to home.
The 43-year-old The Tudors star and 67-year-old iconic Being John Malkovich actor recently filmed their new disaster-related feature, The Survivalist, which centers around the fall of a society a year and a year. half after a virus outbreak.
Rhys Meyers plays a former FBI agent on the run from a psychopath and his gang of hunters played by Malkovich as he tries to save a young girl immune to the virus.
The Survivalist: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, 43, stars John Malkovich, 67, in a pandemic thriller that follows the collapse of a society a year and a half after a deadly virus outbreak; pictured 2018
The movie, which recently wrapped up filming in the Tri-state area, is being produced by Yale Productions, with horror movie buff Jon Keeyes as director and an original script by Matthew Rogers.
Jordan Yale Levine and Jordan Beckerman of Yale Productions – who recently released Chick Fight along with Bella Thorne, Malin Akerman and Alec Baldwin have released a statement about the project.
“We are delighted and honored to work with screen legends John Malkovich and Jonathan Rhys Meyers on The Survivalist, an exciting, timely and action-packed feature film with great performances,” said Levine.
Pandemic Proportions: Malkovich plays a psychopath who leads a gang of hunters who try to grab a young woman immune to the virus, while Rhys Meyers tries his best to protect her
News of the upcoming movie comes just a month after Irish-born actor Rhys Meyers was charged with a DUI in Malibu on Nov. 8, following a minor crash.
The Match Point star was the only one in the car and failed a field sobriety test, resulting in him being arrested and briefly jailed before being released.
Not his first meeting with the law, he was detained at LAX in 2018 after a verbal dispute with his wife Mara Lane over an e-cigarette, even though both she and agents claimed no crime had been committed.
A history of alcohol abuse, he most recently relapsed in 2017 after his wife’s miscarriage, though she called him ‘the strongest person I know,’ adding: ‘He has been able to turn every ugliness and pain in his life into art. ‘
Troubled Times: The new movie role comes just a month after the Irish-born actor was charged with a DUI after crashing his car in Malibu and failing a field sobriety test, after which he was arrested and jailed; pictured with Lane in 2016
Malkovich also went through tough times, being ripped off of his nearly $ 50 million savings in the 2008 Bernie Madoff ponzi plan, which hit a handful of Hollywood heavyweights, including Kevin Bacon, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Larry King.
After winding up the scammer’s firm eventually getting back $ 670,000, the New Pope actor told Vanity Fair in 2013, “ Honestly, it was a good life lesson, ” saying it made him work harder while keeping his perspective.
‘I had to do more work that paid for a number of years, and keep working all the time. I think it has reconnected me to how most people live all the time. And, unlike many people involved with Madoff, I could just go back to work, and that was fine, ”he said coolly.
The couple’s latest venture, The Survivalist, hasn’t been given a release date, but is in post-production.
Work Harder: After losing his nearly $ 50 million fortune in the 2008 Madoff Plan, a very cool Malkovich said, “ I had to do more work that paid for several years, and work all the time, ” while working on it added, “how most people live all the time”; pictured 2019