Bruce Willis and Jaime King sign on for thriller Out of Death

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

Bruce Willis has already starred in seventeen movies for Emmett/Furla Films, so why not make it twenty? Willis has signed a deal to work with EFF on three more films, and it sounds like some of these might be of interest to us here at Arrow in the Head.

When the pandemic lockdown hit, Willis had been in Puerto Rico for the EFF crime thriller MIDNIGHT IN THE SWITCHGRASS. The company hopes to get that project rolling again at the end of this month, then when filming wraps Willis remain in Puerto Rico to start work on a thriller titled OUT OF DEATH.

To be directed by Mike Burns from a screenplay by Bill Lawrence, OUT OF DEATH is set to star genre regular Jaime King as a

woman on a hike who witnesses four strangers committing a crime. She races through the woods in an attempt to elude them, and enlists the aid of a retired forest ranger (Willis). 

Willis and King taking on four criminals in a forest sounds like a good time to me.

EFF co-CEOs Randall Emmett and George Furla will be producing OUT OF DEATH with Lydia Hull. Tim Sullivan and Alex Eckert serve as executive producers.

The other two projects in this three picture deal are RUN OF THE HITMAN and KILLING FIELD.

Written by Stephen Cyrus Sepher and Billy Jay, RUN OF THE HITMAN will be about 

an engineered mercenary racing the clock to stop a corrupt government official attempting to seize control of the mercenary organization to serve his own corrupt purposes.

KILLING FIELD was written by Ross Peacock and has the following synopsis: 

A woman’s life on her serene farm is interrupted when a cop and a pair of dangerous criminals show up. 

As for MIDNIGHT IN THE SWITCHGRASS, that one is being directed by Randall Emmett from a script by Alan Horsnail. It's based on the true story of "Texas's most dangerous serial killer" and has this synopsis: 

FBI agent Karl Helter (Bruce Willis) and his partner Rebecca Lombardi (Megan Fox) are very close to busting a sex-trafficking ring. When they realize their investigation has crossed the path of a brutal serial killer, they team up with Texas Ranger Byron Crawford (Emile Hirsch) who has years on this case. When Rebecca herself is abducted by their target and her life hangs in the balance, Karl and Byron have precious few hours to piece together the last clues and put an end to the infamous ‘Truck Stop Killer’.

I have been critical of Willis's lackadaisical acting performances in recent years, but I have to admit that I'm intrigued by these projects. I look forward to seeing how they'll turn out.