Grindstone Entertainment Group now owns the rights to the upcoming crime drama. One day like a lion, reports Deadline. The film is currently in production. Story One day like a lion follows Jackie Powers, the father of a delinquent juvenile son who struggles to escape his past life of crime as he takes a job as a collector for local mobster Dom Lorenzo and his mob boss Paulie Russo.

After failing to take Walter Boggs, a local cowboy legend, he escapes with waitress Lola Brisky as a hostage. Seeing no way out of the chaotic situation, he makes a deal with Lola and poses as her fiancé to impress her terminally ill mother in exchange for money to pay his son’s defense lawyer.

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The film shows the acting talents of the Oscar winner. J.K. Simmons (Whip), Frank Grillo (Captain America, The Purge), Michael Carmen Pitt (Boardwalk Empire), Marianne Rendon (Charlie says), Taryn Manning (Orange is the new black) and Academy Award nominee Virginia Madsen (Sideways).

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One day like a lion was written Scott Caan (Hawaii Five-O), With John Swab (Ida Red) as director. Jeremy M. Rosen (Ida Red, Charlie says) produces for Roxwell Films. Executive Producers Barry Brooker, Stan Wertlieb, Joshua Spector, Viviana Sarragoitiaas well as Ali Jazayeri.

Swab and Rosen have also worked together on several other projects; One day like a lion will be their seventh creative collaboration. This is also the fourth creative project between Rosen, Swab and Grillo, with their latest project being Ida Red, a crime thriller starring Grillo, Josh Hartnett and Melissa Leo. The three also have two films expected to release in late 2022.

Speaking to Deadline, Rosen stated that he and Swab were “burnt to bring this project to life” and expressed his excitement about filming in their hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma, where production is currently located. As president of Grindstone, Brooker praised the upcoming thriller and stated that the company is “very excited to partner with Jeremy, John and Scott to bring this film to audiences.”

With such behind-the-scenes talent, a cast and crew many of whom have proven in previous projects that they can successfully collaborate together to make feature films, they promise that One day like a lion would be a great take on crime and dysfunctional family drama. Hopefully it will be a wild ride and worth seeing.

There is currently no release date for One day like a lion.