Jean-Stephane Sauvaire is directing the film. It's drawn from the story of Billy Moore, who ended up incarcerated in the brutal Thai prison Klong Prem, known as the notorious Bangkok Hilton. There, mostly to survive, he began learning the skills of Muay Thai boxing. Nick Saltese adapted Moore’s book for Wild Bunch and Hurricane Films.
Hunnam is already training in the fighting discipline, and he’ll need to seriously shape up in the discipline, because Sauvaire is recruiting former prisoners and Muay Thai champions for the cast.
“A Prayer Before Dawn is – at one and the same time – a true story, a prison drama, a survival movie, a desperate love story and an extraordinary tale of redemption,” Sauvaire tells Screen International. “Above all, it is a poignant and uniquely human story.”
With Sons wrapping up this year, Hunnam has been busy working on movies, with a likely role as King Arthur in Guy Ritchie’s take on the legend in the offing, and work on The Mountain Between Us planned for next year. He also has Guillermo del Toro’s haunted house thriller Crimson Peak hitting October 16, 2015.
Please Leave A Comment-
Source-Empire
Comments