EXCLUSIVE: Diego Luna is set to star in indie thriller, Eleven Days, opposite Taylor Kitsch from Concussion director Peter Landesman.
The film is set in the sweltering heat of a Texas summer in 1974, where ruthless prisoner Federico Carrasco (Luna) plays a deadly game against Jim Estelle (Kitsch), head of the Texas Department of Corrections, after taking over Huntsville Penitentiary and holding dozens hostage when his pre-planned escape goes awry. Lines between captor and captive, justice and survival, begin to blur as the siege spirals for eleven endless, terrifying days.
The screenplay is written by Kevin Sheridan with revisions by Landesman, based on the book Eleven Days In Hell: The 1974 Carrasco Prison Siege at Huntsville, Texas, by William T. Harper. The film, which will shoot in Texas in September, is produced by Vincent Newman and Vance Howard.
Luna has already him self quite the year following the second season of the Disney+ series Andor. Luna earned some of the best reviews of his career and while he missed out on an Emmy nomination the series did land a nom for best drama series. The show’s second and final season has just yesterday earned 14 Emmy Nominations including Outstanding Drama Series. It has been hailed by critics as emotionally powerful, timely, and one of the most artistically rich Star Wars projects to date.
Luna also received Golden Globe and Gotham TV Award nominations for his role in Hulu’s first Spanish-language limited series, La Máquina, where he plays the self-destructive manager of an aging boxer. He stars alongside longtime collaborator Gael García Bernal, and the pair produced the series through their company, La Corriente del Golfo, which they founded in 2018 to tell global stories across film, TV, theater, and audio.
Up next, Luna stars opposite Jennifer Lopez in Bill Condon’s adaptation of Kiss of the Spider Woman, a Sundance standout set for release by Lionsgate on October 10. Luna was introduced to worldwide audiences with his starring role in Alfonso Cuaron’s 2001 award-winning road epic, Y Tu Mama Tambien, alongside Gael Garcia Bernal. A lifelong artist, he began his professional acting career on stage at the age of seven and made his television debut at age twelve.
He is represented by WME and Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum Matlof and Fishman.
