Letitia Wright, Jamie Bell And Michael K. Williams To Star In Bron Studios And Anthony Mandler’s Western Film ‘Surrounded’

Deadline is reporting that Letitia Wright, Jamie Bell and Michael K. Williams will star in Bron Studios’ Surrounded with Anthony Mandler directing. The film is set to begin production in New Mexico in November.

Written by Andrew Pagana and Justin Thomas, the film is set five years after the Civil War, where former Buffalo Soldier Moses “Mo” Washington travels west to lay claim on a gold mine bequeathed by her late slaveowner father. It is a mean, dangerous world for an unaccompanied Black woman and so Mo travels into the deep frontier disguised as a man. After her stagecoach is ambushed, she is tasked with holding a dangerous outlaw captive and must survive the day when the bandit’s gang tries to free him.

“BRON is excited to be back in New Mexico teaming up once again with Governor Michelle Grisham and her incredible team from the NM Film Office, the NM Economic Development Department, and Senator Martin Heinrich’s office. “New Mexico is such a special place to film,” said Steven Thibault, COO at BRON, “and what Alicia J. Keyes and Amber Dodson have managed to create for the industry in NM is a sustainable, world-class production center and we are thankful for all of the support that they provide to us.”

Bron will co-produce with Blackhand Media Production, in association with Mandalay Pictures, 3.16 Productions and Creative Wealth Media. This is the first film from Blackhand Media, a partnership between director-producer Mandler and Bron Studios. The pic is being produced by Bron’s Aaron L. Gilbert, Mandler and Derek Iger for Blackhand, Mandalay’s Jason Michael Berman, and Wright and Ade O’Adesina of 3.16. Jason Cloth, William Green and Aaron Ginsberg are the executive producers. Brent Morris is the line producer/UPM.