In today’s film news roundup, Jesse Eisenberg is starring and exec producing “Wild Indian”; Jason Bateman is directing “Shut In”; “Saturday Night Live” veteran Paula Pell is honored; and the Palm Springs Film Festival sets its opening and closing films.CastingJesse Eisenberg is starring in and executive producing the independent thriller “Wild Indian,” Variety has learned exclusively.“Wild Indian,” written and directed by Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr., also stars Michael Greyeyes, Chaske Spencer, Kate Bosworth and Scott Haze (“Venom”).
The film, shooting in Oklahoma City, was developed as part of the Sundance Institute Writers and Directors Lab as well as Sundance Catalyst.The story follows two Anishinaabe men who are inextricably bound together after covering up the savage murder of a schoolmate.
After years of separation following wildly divergent paths, they must finally confront how their traumatic secret has irrevocably shaped their lives.
Greyeyes plays a character who
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