{"id":357889,"date":"2025-08-19T22:43:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T22:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/357889\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T22:43:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T22:43:13","slug":"josh-holloway-to-star-in-one-second-after-for-mpi-original-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/357889\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Holloway To Star In &#8216;One Second After&#8217; For MPI Original Films"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<strong>EXCLUSIVE: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/josh-holloway\/\" id=\"auto-tag_josh-holloway\" data-tag=\"josh-holloway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Josh Holloway<\/a> (Duster) has been tapped to lead an <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/mpi-original-films\/\" id=\"auto-tag_mpi-original-films\" data-tag=\"mpi-original-films\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MPI Original Films<\/a> adaptation of <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/one-second-after\/\" id=\"auto-tag_one-second-after\" data-tag=\"one-second-after\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">One Second After<\/a>, the New York Times bestselling novel from William R. Forstchen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHolloway stars as John Matherson, a college professor and former military officer charged with protecting his community after a catastrophic electromagnetic pulse attack cripples the nation. Set in the hills of North Carolina, the film follows John as he confronts a world suddenly stripped of power, communication, and modern infrastructure, guiding those around him through life-or-death decisions in a fight for survival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tVeteran stunt coordinator and second unit director Scott Rogers (Tron: Ares, John Wick: Chapter 4) will direct the film, which is a co-production of MPI Original Films (Motherland, Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game) and Startling Inc. (House of the Dragon, Game of Thrones), with filming to begin in Sofia, Bulgaria next month. J. Michael Straczynski penned the script. MPI\u2019s Rob Pfaltzgraff and Nick Reid are producing along with Startling Inc.\u2019s Matt Kennedy, with author Forstchen serving as executive producer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMost recently leading Max\u2019s crime thriller series Duster from J.J. Abrams and LaToya Morgan, Holloway is best known for his role as James \u201cSawyer\u201d Ford in Abrams\u2019 earlier series, the iconic ABC drama Lost, which ran for six seasons. Also known for projects like USA Network\u2019s Colony, on which he was a producer, and Paramount Network\u2019s Yellowstone, the actor recently wrapped opposite Joe Cole and Rita Ora on He Bled Neon for XYZ Films.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMPI Original Films is known for titles like Miss Virginia, starring Uzo Aduba, and Pinball, starring Mike Faist and Crystal Reed. Additional feature credits include the MPI Original and BET Original Kemba, streaming exclusively on BET+, the American Black Film Festival official selection Freedom Hair, and the sci-fi thriller titled Motherland starring Miriam Silverman, Holland Taylor, and N\u00e9stor Carbonell, which releases in select theaters and on demand September 12. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHolloway is repped by UTA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Josh Holloway (Duster) has been tapped to lead an MPI Original Films adaptation of One Second After,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,77,125966,125967,125968,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-357889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-josh-holloway","11":"tag-mpi-original-films","12":"tag-one-second-after","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115057852929494728","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}