Taylor Kitsch to Star in Survival Thriller ‘Eleven Days’

Taylor Kitsch, the star of “Friday Night Lights” and “Lone Survivor,” is set to lead the independent survival thriller “Eleven Days.”

Set in Texas during the summer of 1974, “Eleven Days” follows the head of the Texas Department of Corrections Jim Estelle (Kitsch) who plays a deadly game against a convicted heroin dealer, who is holding dozens of people hostage at a local penitentiary after a pre-planned escape goes awry. According to the official logline, “lines between captor and captive, justice and survival, begin to blur as the siege spirals for 11 endless, terrifying days.”

Filming will take place in Texas this September. “Eleven Days” will be directed by Peter Landesman (“Parkland,” “Concussion”). Kevin Sheridan is writing the screenplay with revisions by Landesman, based on the book “Eleven Days In Hell: The 1974 Carrasco Prison Siege at Huntsville, Texas” by William T. Harper. Producers include Vincent Newman and Vance Howard.

Kitsch will appear next in “The Terminal List” prequel series “Dark Wolf,” a spinoff of the original thriller that explores the life of his character Ben Edwards. Since his breakout role as Tim Riggins on the beloved series “Friday Night Lights,” Kitsch has starred in Disney’s live-action science fiction adventure “John Carter” as the eponymous John Carter, “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” as Gambit, Universal’s “Battleship” adaptation” and HBO’s drama “The Normal Heart” opposite Mark Ruffalo and Julia Roberts. More recently, he was the lead in back-to-back Netflix shows, the Western “American Primeval” and opiod drama “Painkiller.” Kitsch is represented by Untitled Entertainment, WME and ID.