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Need for Speed director signs on for action thriller Blackout

November 2, 2015 by Gary Collinson

Variety is reporting that Act of Valor and Need for Speed director Scott Waugh has signed on to helm the action thriller Blackout.

The project “follows a cop who’s tasked with transporting a mysterious and dangerous criminal across town. He’s put to the ultimate test when a city-wide blackout plunges them into chaos.”

Waugh is also rumoured to be attached to Inversion, a sci-fi where Earth mysteriously loses its gravity and chaos ensues.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL18yMRIfoszEaHYNDTy5C-cH9Oa2gN5ng&v=W04aXcyQ0NQ

Originally published November 2, 2015. Updated April 14, 2018.

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Blackout, Scott Waugh

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Flickering Myth. He is a film, television and digital content writer and producer, whose work includes the gothic horror feature The Baby in the Basket and the suspense thriller Death Among the Pines. He is also the author of Holy Franchise, Batman! Bringing the Caped Crusader to the Screen.

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