Director Nick Merola Releases Short Film Inspired by ‘Silent Hill 4: The Room’ [Video]

One of the very few theatrical releases in the very early days of the pandemic, Derrick Borte’s Unhinged managed to make $44 million at the box office at a time when audiences weren’t exactly eager to get back into theaters, the film offering an action-packed, explosively violent bit of exploitation with Russell Crowe as the title character, a road rage-fueled madman.

Four years later, Derrick Borte and Russell Crowe are reteaming for a new action-thriller titled Bear Country, but the bad news here is that it’s not a Russell Crowe vs. Bears movie.

Deadline details, “Crowe will play ageing but formidable club owner, Manco Kapak who has been robbed by a masked gunman. Now, his aspirations of selling his club and riding off into the sunset alongside his girlfriend appear more distant than ever.

In the upcoming film, “Cartel bosses are breathing down his neck and a young upstart has been posing as the new guy in town eager to purchase the club.”

Derrick Borte and Daniel Forte (American Dreamer) wrote the screenplay for Bear Country, which was based on the Thomas Perry novel titled Strip.

Borte said in a statement, “After the great experience we shared on Unhinged, I’d been looking for another project with Russell – one that would allow him to show more of what so many people (including myself) loved so much about Jackson Healy in The Nice Guys – and we both immediately knew that Bear Country was the one.”