Rob Morgan To Produce & Star In Allyn Brothers’ Appalachian Crime Pic ‘Dixie Crystal’ For Riverside Entertainment
02.11.2022 - 20:55
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EXCLUSIVE: Rob Morgan (Smile) will produce and star in the crime film Dixie Crystal, based on the real-life FBI Operation of the same name, from brother filmmakers Conor and Jake Allyn (No Man’s Land).
The film from Riverside Entertainment and Stride Management centers on FBI special agent Jim Anderson (Morgan), who faces the overwhelming job of ridding methamphetamine from Harlan, Kentucky — a sprawling mountain ghetto policed by only a handful of lawmen. Over the course of the pic, Jim finds himself pitted against a former coal union boss turned drug kingpin. With a different skin color and a badge that means little in the hollers, he recruits local cop, Harlan native and recovering addict Cam (Jake Allyn) to assist. They start an investigation into locally made meth, or “Dixie Crystal,” and the locals behind it. But the deeper the investigation goes, the more Jim realizes that the drugs he’s chasing, and the miners cooking them, are the only things keeping this community alive. In this county, meth is the new coal.
Dixie Crystal was developed and packaged by Stride Management, which reps both Morgan and Jake Allyn. Conor Allyn will direct from Jake Allyn’s script. Morgan will produce with the Allyn brothers’ Margate House Films (No Man’s Land, Edge of the World) and Riverside Entertainment’s Brian Loschiavo, Pastor Alvarado and Jeff Molyneaux (Manodrome, Bluebird), who will also finance alongside Matt Shelton, Josh Peters (The Lighthouse) and exec producer Tony Herbert.
The film is slated to shoot in West Virginia and Kentucky in April 2023 and is partnered with Brooke’s House, an all-women recovery house run by former narcotics officer Kevin Simmers, which provides an on-set job skills program for its
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