EXCLUSIVE: Rhea Seehorn is the latest to join the ensemble cast of the indie hostage thriller Eleven Days starring Taylor Kitsch, Diego Luna and Jason Isaacs. Concussion helmer Peter Landesman will direct.
The film takes place in the sweltering heat of a Texas summer in 1974, watching as ruthless prisoner Federico Carrasco takes control of the Huntsville Penitentiary. The prison’s priest, Father Joseph O’Brien — played by Isaacs — joins forces with Jim Estelle (Kitsch), head of the Texas Department of Corrections, by entering the eye of the storm and offering himself as a hostage to out-game Carrasco and his men, in an attempt to save the lives of the other hostages that have been taken.
Script is 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. Vincent Newman and Vance Howard will produce, with production to take place in Texas in September.
Seehorn is best known for her critically acclaimed role in the AMC drama Better Call Saul, which earned multiple Emmy nominations. Next up, she is reuniting with Better Call Saul creator Vince Gilligan in the highly-anticipated Apple series Pluribus, which bows this fall.
She is repped by UTA.
