{"id":398503,"date":"2025-09-04T23:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T23:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/398503\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T23:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T23:35:10","slug":"neil-marshalls-art-of-action-banner-sets-two-new-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/398503\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Marshall’s Art Of Action Banner Sets Two New Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Those guys at 87North best be sleeping with one eye open \u2014 there’s a new, UK based action outfit in town, and it’s already set its first two features. As per Deadline<\/a>‘s reporting, Art Of Action Ltd. \u2014 founded by filmmakers Neil Marshall and Jadey Duffield following their work on last year’s eponymous BFI season dedicated to the genre \u2014 has struck a deal with UAE company Versatile Synergy to make two high-concept new action movies.<\/p>\n

The first of these two projects is a survival thriller, Skeleton Coast. To be written and directed by Marshall, whose horror classic The Descent<\/a> just celebrated its 20th anniversary<\/a>, Skeleton Coast is described as “an action-packed survival thriller with a dark sense of humour in the tradition of such \u2018man-versus-nature\u2019 movies as Jaws<\/a>, Lake Placid<\/a>, The Grey<\/a>, and Beast<\/a>.” Its plot revolves around members of a film crew who crash in the desert and find themselves at the mercy of savage hyenas, poachers, and human traffickers.<\/p>\n

The second feature, hailing from Duffield, is Blackout, whose logline is quite the eye-catcher. Per the synopsis provided to Empire, Duffield’s joint is “a contained espionage Knives Out<\/a> whodunnit crossed with The Raid<\/a>-style action” which centres around a group of elite corporate spies who, while hiding at an exclusive off-grid resort, discover their digs have been infiltrated by enemy operatives, turning the place into \u2014 and we quote \u2014 “a blood-soaked battleground.” Count us in!<\/p>\n

Speaking to Empire after the news broke, Marshall said of Art Of Action’s new venture, “We’re so thrilled to be collaborating with Mohamed [F. Mostafa, founder and CEO of Versatile Synergy] and the team at Versatile and can\u2019t wait to get stuck in. We\u2019re really going to push the action envelope with these two movies. Bring on the mayhem!” It sounds like the race for the inaugural Achievement in Stunt Design at the 2028 Oscars<\/a> is on… smashing stuff!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Those guys at 87North best be sleeping with one eye open \u2014 there’s a new, UK based action…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[77,3943,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-398503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115148654350626874","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398503","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=398503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}