• Murder City

  • Will Simmons
  • 2012
  • Set Up
  • Black List
  • Hit List
  • 82.7
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Market: Tue, 05 Jun 2012Sold: Wed, 06 Mar 2013
Producer: Brooklyn Weaver
AgentGeoff Morley, Jason Burns (United Talent Agency)
ManagerBrooklyn Weaver (Energy Entertainment)
ProductionThunder Road Pictures, Energy Independent
Was with Aldamisa since March 2013. Thunder Road took ownership of the project in February of 2016.
A former undercover cop serves time in prison for helping his father with a drug deal. Once released, he's stuck dealing with his father's debts and the local mob.
To save the life of his family, an ex-cop, stripped of his badge after getting involved in a drug deal gone bad, must pay off his dying father’s debt.
After two years in prison, a former Detroit cop is forced to work for a ruthless underworld kingpin to protect his estranged family.
Film
Film, Action, Crime, Drama, Film Noir, Thriller, Cop/FBI/CIA, Dark, Drugs, Vigilante, Gangs, Murder, Organized Crime, Revenge, Urban, Corruption
102
R
Medium
M
White / European
34
Average
Freelancer, Contraband, Savages, The Town, The Departed, Big Heat, Four Brothers, Assault on Precinct 13.
Present / A few days. Also 15% two years prior / one day.
Present-day Detroit, MI. Mostly in ratty apartments, dive bars, cheap motels. Several scenes at Port, involving contraband shipments. A couple of car chases and a shoot-out at an abandoned rail station. Other shoot-outs in ratty apartment and stash house. Visiting room and hallway in prison.
Detroit cops NEIL (34) and LAZ (27) catch a young drug dealer. Neil lets the dealer go, dumping his heroin but keeping his money, which Neil gives to his wife MOLLY (31) at a bar owned by underworld kingpin BISHOP (48), where she works. At home, Neil finds his son TREV (11) with Neil's father, GRAHAM (52). Graham, a criminal, requests Neil's help making a drug deal because he owes Bishop $100 thousand and his life is on the line. Neil reluctantly agrees. They meet up with MANNY (38), the buyer. Manny reveals he is DEA and arrests them after a brief altercation.

Two years later, Neil gets out of prison. His brother, SPENCER (28), a junkie and runner for Bishop, picks him up. At the pub, Bishop informs Neil that since Graham is dying of cancer in prison, his father's debt is now Neil’s problem--and offers him work to pay it off. While he thinks on it, Neil tries to reconnect with his wife and child, but Molly rebuffs his advances.

Bishop runs "protection" at the port for smugglers like Russian PAVEL (43) and then narcs to corrupt FBI agents, who steal the take and get a cut. Bishop sells the contraband to a ghetto-based dealer,...