The Survivalist (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, John Malkovich)

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Deadline: Jonathan Rhys Meyers & John Malkovich Starring In Pandemic Thriller ‘The Survivalist’

EXCLUSIVE: Jonathan Rhys Meyers and John Malkovich are starring in pandemic thriller The Survivalist for Yale Productions, with the project having recently wrapped in the Tri-state area.

Jon Keeyes directed the movie from an original script by Matthew Rogers. It takes place a year and a half after the fall of civilization from a virus outbreak. A former FBI agent (Rhys Meyers) is forced to protect a young woman, who is immune to the disease, from a dangerous gang hunting her led by a psychopath who believes he’s going to use her to save the world (Malkovich).

[Foggy]

I guess it was naive of me to think the Pandemic movie boom would be restrained to a small sector of indie oddities and the odd studio misfire. Everyone is going all in on this business.

[TheWildWhelk]

And here is me thinking this was going to be based on the crappy pulp-action post-apocalyptic novel series by Jerry Ahern (al 35 of them!) about his protagonist John Rourke.

[Metalbeast]

It's crazy how many low budget straight-to-VOD movies Jonathan Rhys Meyers has been in lately. I just saw one he did recently with Jeremy Piven and a bald cap wearing Emile Hirsch.