‘Your Lucky Day,’ Action Thriller Featuring One Of Final Angus Cloud Performances, Goes To Well Go USA
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EXCLUSIVE: The action thriller Your Lucky Day, featuring one of the final performances of the late Euphoria breakout Angus Cloud, has landed a U.S. distribution deal with Well Go USA Entertainment. On the heels of its world premiere at Fantastic Fest this Saturday, September 23rd, the film will hit theaters across the country on November 10th and arrive on digital on the 14th.
Written and directed by Emmy nominee Dan Brown, Your Lucky Day watches as a dispute over a winning lottery ticket turns into a deadly hostage situation, leaving the witnesses to decide exactly how far they’ll go — and how much blood they’re willing to spill — for a cut of the $156 million. As the spiraling, life-or-death situation unravels in the small convenience store on Christmas Eve, it becomes evident that the poisonous heart of the American dream can actually be a nightmare.
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“We’ve been sold a myth that hard work alone will get you there but NFL players go broke at about the same percentage as lottery winners: 70%. As the gap between the top and bottom widens, and we see the injustice of families unable to pay their medical bills while billionaires literally plot to live forever, our collective belief in this false dream is pitiable,” said filmmaker Brown in a statement shared with Deadline. “Movies are for everyone, so the goal was to make a thrilling, fun and entertaining movie that could also be about something deeper– a look at one of those larger-than-life moments that we all hope for and ask, ‘is this really worth it?'”
Also starring in the film are Jessica Garza (USA Networks’ The Purge), Elliot Knight (The Boys), Jason O’Mara (Hypnotic), Sterling Beaumon (The Killing), Mousa Hussien Kraish (Superbad), and Spencer Garrett (Winning Time). Luke Barnett and Adam Baxter served as its producers.
On the subject of his experience working with Cloud, who died unexpectedly on July 31st, aged 25, Brown observed, “You get to know an actor in the edit, especially when you’re working fast like we did on this shoot, the hours spent pouring over their performance quickly surpasses those bright memories of being on set. As the film comes together you start to imagine that moment where you get to share an actor’s performance with them.
“You imagine watching the movie together, but really watching them– will they like it? How will they react? They gave me their trust– did I deserve it?” the writer-director shared. “I wondered if Angus would like it? Would he see what I saw? I thought about that moment all the time — it was the future I was dreaming about.”
Added Brown, “Angus was the kindest person on set. Humble. Creative. He would openly celebrate everyone around him. From actors to PAs. He was always listening to others when all they really wanted to do was hear from him. On the long nights he’d be there shouting, “quiet on the set,” to help our First AD or shoot a Youtube video with the caterer for his channel. He would take time to make others feel special. Seen.
I will never get to watch the film with Angus but I feel blessed to have had this brief time with him. For our conversations about the script, his stories about the time he rode rails down the coast, those pitch perfect improvisations he’d add to simple moments, his sense of humor. After the shoot, Angus told me something I had always hoped to say back to him, “congratulations bro you did it.””
Prior to his passing earlier this year, the cause of which remains unknown, Cloud had garnered international stardom with his turn as the lovable drug dealer Fezco on HBO’s Euphoria, also leaving behind performances in the forthcoming film Freaky Tales from Anna Fleck and Ryan Boden and Radio Silence’s still-untitled monster thriller for Universal.
Paradigm negotiated the deal on behalf of the filmmakers. View an exclusive clip and teaser poster for Your Lucky Day above.
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