Bella Thorne and Jack Kilmer are heading into production on The Tower, one of the 102 projects to have been granted a SAG-AFTRA Interim Agreement following the launch of the actors’ strike.
The film comes from filmmakers Adam Sigal (Chariot, When the Starlight Ends). The cast also includes Cam Gigandet and Chris Mullinax.
The film is described as a “dark tale about a mysterious mermaid trapped and forgotten for years in the water tower of a small Southern town. Sigal described it as his “attempt to interpret the isolation and wanderlust I felt growing up in a small Southern town.”
The Tower is produced by B.I. Rosen, Frederic Demey, James Bruce, Johnny Remo, Clare Bateman-King, and Joey Stanton; executive producers will include Dani Druz, Sasha Yelaun, Dane and Liz Fiori, Johnny Graham, David Lipper, Robert A. Daly Jr, Tim Marlowe, and Phil Goldfine.
On the production, Sigal notes, “It breaks my heart that there are so many actors, writers, and crews unable to work at the moment, and I realise how fortunate we are to have the opportunity to finish this film. I am incredibly grateful to SAG for continuing to support independent film, and as soon as we wrap, the cast of The Tower and I will be out there on the picket lines beside our fellow actors and writers, fighting for what they deserve.”
Sigal is awaiting the release of his fourth feature, the Simon Pegg-led Nandor Fodor and The Talking Mongoose, on September 1st.
