EXCLUSIVE: Vanessa Hudgens (Bad Boys: Ride or Die) has wrapped production in Vancouver, British Columbia on Quiet Storm, a dramatic thriller marking the directorial debut of Anthony Thorne, who also penned the script.
Exploring themes from the ’60s such as women’s liberation and the Black Power movement, the film takes place in the summer of 1969, as the infamous Hurricane Camille marks its tragic landfall. Hudgens plays a romance novelist trapped indoors during the storm as she struggles to cope with the reality of an ever-changing world.
Academy Award winner Mira Sorvino (Shining Vale, American Crime Story) co-stars, as does Thorne as Hudgens’ husband. Alongside Hudgens, Thorne and Sorvino, the film also features up-and-comers including Seydou Maiga, Sophia Chapdelaine, Cody John, and Elysée Sanvillé. The film is being presented and executive produced by filmmaker Nick Cassavetes, a longtime friend and supporter of Thorne.
Hudgens and Thorne partnered as lead producers under Thorne’s production company, Cliffside Films, alongside producer Oliver Trevena of Ollywood Media, and producers Stephanie Rennie and Emrey Wright of Odessa Productions. Other executive producers include Cassavetes’ decades-long collaborator, Matthew Barry of Adegan Productions, as well as Joel Eisenberg, Steve Snyder and Heidi Ben. Ronnie Exley and Rabbits Black are the financiers.
Known for roles in everything from the High School Musical films to the Princess Switch trilogy, Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers, and the last two Bad Boys films, opposite Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, Hudgens is repped by Untitled Entertainment, CAA, and Ziffren Brittenham.
Sorvino won an Oscar for Mighty Aphrodite and has more recently been seen starring in projects like the Starz series Shining Vale, Sound of Freedom, and Impeachment: American Crime Story. She is repped by Circle Management + Production and Independent Artists Group.
Thorne has several other projects in various stages of development, including a sci-fi thriller called Lifeform, which he co-wrote with Ice Cube and will produce alongside Cube and Jeff Kwatinetz under Cube Vision, with Simon West set to direct. Alongside his brother Michael Tovo, he also co-wrote After Exile, a crime drama to be directed by Dito Montiel and star Shia LaBeouf, which is aiming to shoot later this year in Philadelphia and will be produced by Thorne, Keith Kjarvel, Scott LaStaiti, and Andrea Bucko. The filmmaker is repped by CAA and the law offices of Kirk Schenck.
Known for projects like The Notebook, John Q, Alpha Dog, and most recently God Is a Bullet starring Maika Monroe, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Jamie Foxx, Cassavetes is repped by LBI Entertainment, WME and Yorn, Levine, Barnes.