Sean Penn, Tye Sheridan to star in Black Flies

Oscar winner Sean Penn has teamed up with Prepared Participant One star Tye Sheridan for thriller Black Flies.

The 2 stars will play the lead roles within the film, based mostly on Shannon Burke novel’s of the identical and to be directed by Jean-Stephane Sauvaire, reported Deadline.

The story is about lifesaving paramedics and the toll the job takes on them.

Sheridan will essay the function of an idealistic younger man who's prepping for medical college and will get a street-side view of issues when he drives an ambulance alongside a grizzled veteran (Penn) who is taken into account to be one of many metropolis’s finest emergency medics.

Ryan King has penned the screenplay for the movie, which is anticipated to start manufacturing in New York Metropolis late this yr.

Sculptor Media’s Warren Goz and Eric Gold will produce together with Christopher Kopp, Lucan Toh and Projected Image Works’ Penn, John Ira Palmer and John Wildermuth.

Luke Rodgers, Josh Stern, Sheridan, James Masciello, Matthew Sidari, Tom Ortenberg and King will function government producers.