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GENRE: Adventure/Comedy
LENGTH: Feature Film (110 minutes)
LOCATION: Nevada
DIRECTOR: William Wedig
PRODUCER: Brian David Cange
WRITERS:
Marcus Hahn & Brian David Cange
and Zach Brown & William Wedig
Screenplay available upon request.
LOGLINE
An introverted mechanic is forced to team up with the local townsfolk to fight off a gang of two-bit mobsters, who are dead set on turning their hometown into a casino resort.
An introverted mechanic is forced to team up with the local townsfolk to fight off a gang of two-bit mobsters, who are dead set on turning their hometown into a casino resort.
WELCOME TO
COYOTE RUN
A one horse town lost in time
deep in the deserts of Nevada.
But trouble’s a brewin’ for the locals. And it’s
coming headstrong toward one man: Stain Cottrel.
AND STAIN'S BEEN HAVING TROUBLE...
...in the form of a flashy, small time gangster named The Great Pretender, the leader of a group of lowlifes who call themselves “THE FRANCHISE.”
The Great Pretender and his gang have been buying properties in Coyote Run with the hopes of flooding the surrounding ravines and creating an island casino and resort town: the third largest gambling town in the state of Nevada.
But when the Great Pretender comes to buy Stain's house out from under him, Stain discovers the casino plans would ban the use of cars and only allow for the use of golf carts.
A resort town with no need for Stain or the Cottrel family.
But when the Great Pretender comes to buy Stain's house out from under him, Stain discovers the casino plans would ban the use of cars and only allow for the use of golf carts.
A resort town with no need for Stain or the Cottrel family.
A resort town with no need for Stain or the Cottrel family.
STAIN COTTRELL
Mid 30s, Stain is a hard hearted, salt-of-the-earth country boy. He wants and believes that you have to “Go it alone.” And that a man shouldn’t need no help from nobody.
But when challenged with the loss of his car garage and his only source of income, Stain comes out of his shell to accept the help of the townspeople and take on The Franchise.
EDSEL COTTRELL
Early 30’s, Stain’s half-brained, dimwitted brother. An expert with engines (probably the only thing he's great at), all he wants is to work in the shop or go do something he calls “wrasslin’ Shine.”
Like a lost puppy, Edsel idolizes his brother and believes him to always be right even when Stain takes advantage of his slow thinking.
JAMIE SUE COTTRELL
Stain and Edsel’s beautiful, early 20’s sister. She works at an ice cream parlour with milkshakes, ice cream cones and all the fixin’s.
A wide-eyed romantic, Jamie Sue longs for a more exciting life outside the constrains of Coyote Run. But when that leads to a romance with one of the Great Pretender’s hoodlums, Lonesome Bob, she may have just bit off more than she, or the Cottrels, can chew.
Stain and Edsel’s beautiful, early 20’s sister. She works at an ice cream parlour with milkshakes, ice cream cones and all the fixin’s.
A wide-eyed romantic, Jamie Sue longs for a more exciting life outside the constrains of Coyote Run. But when that leads to a romance with one of the Great Pretender’s hoodlums, Lonesome Bob, she may have just bit off more than she, or the Cottrels, can chew.
THE GREAT PRETENDER
The flashy, zoot suit wearing second in command of the low life gangsters calling themselves The Franchise. He speaks in eloquent, high-minded words. A crooked combination of Liberace, Prince and Lenny Kravitz.
THE SOVEREIGN:
The real leader behind all of The Franchise’s moves, The Sovereign is clearly the Alpha over The Great Pretender. She is dismissive of everyone and everything. A mix of Cruella DeVille and Jack Nicholson in The Departed.
She’ll do anything to seek what she calls “her prize.” Including disposing of anyone who gets in her path.
I love all types of film: art films, blockbusters, thrillers, action, and cult classics. I grew up watching “popcorn flicks” late into the night in my parent’s basement which is where I found my inspirations: the style of Ridley, the movement of Boyle and Bigelow, and the heart of Singelton. But when I discovered the off-kilter worlds that the indie films of 1990's created, I knew I had found my place. The characters of the Coens, the stylings of Liman and Tarantino and comedy of Smith and Linklater. These were my mentors… and these highly creative, artistic indie films became my school books. It’s following in these footsteps that have led me to direct my third feature film, The Devil’s Chasing Me.
The Devil’s Chasing Me follows the rise of an antihero named Stain Cottrell whose pride and hard-headedness have cut him off from his community. Set in modern day, the film showcases the environments of the classic spaghetti westerns, but turned on its head with a 1960’s muscle car flare and an outdated American Southwest. When the story ends, we see Stain not only accept the help of others, but also allow himself to become a leader in his town. It is with these elements that I hope to be able to not only touch audiences but create a modern-day epic adventure with cult classic appeal.
As the film opens, we quickly meet the eccentric characters of the desert town, Coyote Run. Alongside Stain, we meet his half-brained brother, Edsel and his beautiful-but-gullible sister, Jamie Sue. Stain is overprotective of them, blurting out that he “don’t need no help from nobody.” But when a bone-headed snake-oil salesman comes to town selling a dead-end casino and demanding to buy the Cottrell property, Stain is forced to fight back. Along the way he reconnects with a lost love and leader of local uprising, eventually joining the resistance and fighting to protect the town, growing into his true self and becoming a hero. And this is the point of the film: to break down your own walls, find your place in the world, and allow yourself the opportunity to love.
The story is fueled by rockabilly music and desert motifs. Drag races and big block engines. The smell of motor oil in the hot sun. It’s a perfect mix of action, adventure, comedy, and romance. Complete with the taste of burnt rubber and the promise of lost gold, I hope to keep the audience on the edge of their seat and make The Devil’s Chasing Me not only a cult classic, but a source of personal inspiration for generations to come.
- WILLIAM WEDIG
Writer/Director, The Devil's Chasing Me
WILLIAM WEDIG
Director / Co-writer
William Wedig is an award winning writer and director based out of New York and Los Angeles. Wedig's feature, Forged, which he wrote, directed and edited, won Best Film at the HBO Latino Film Festival and stars Manny Perez and 3X Emmy winner Margo Martindale. The New York Times wrote, "Mr. Wedig is sure of his material. 'Forged' is nasty, brutish and short, in all the best ways."
Wedig also directed 26 half-hour episodes of Cartoon Network show, Team Toon, which premiered on Amazon Prime (UK) and ran on Netflix, and starring Disney/ABC starlet Meg Donnelly of Zombies! and American Housewife fame.
Wedig also co-wrote the feature screenplay Evergreen, a 2018 Breakthrough Series winner at the IFP and Filmshop event in Brooklyn, New York. Evergreen was written alongside BAFTA-nominated Jeff Wolverton, whose film The Chubbchubbs won the Academy Award for best animated short.
Additionally, Wedig directed the feature film Rise of the Dead which was distributed by Lions Gate Home Entertainment, the TV special Exposure: Sports Illustrated Swimsuit, starring Kate Upton and Irina Shayk, and was a series director on the music series Noisemakers On Noisevox featuring world-renowned music journalist and former-MTV VJ, John Norris.
Wedig is a member of The Motion Picture Editors Guild.
BRIAN DAVID CANGE
Producer / Co-writer
Brian David Cange is an award-winning producer who most recently was line producer on the crime thriller Man in the Long Black Coat with Neal McDonough, Christopher Lloyd and Dermot Mulroney. He produced western-drama Murder At Yellowstone City with Gabriel Byrne, Richard Dreyfus and Thomas Jane. He also did A Call To Spy for director Lydia Dean Pilcher, Shoplifters Of The World Starring Helena Howard and Joe Manganiello, as well as line producing Sion Sono's Prisoners Of The Ghostland with Nicolas Cage and the baseball drama Bottom Of The Ninth for director Raymond DeFelitta.
Cange's film work also includes: Roxanne, Roxanne, sold to Netflix and starring Mahershala Ali, Nia Long, and Elvis Nolasco for director Michael Larnel and Marjorie Prime, starring Jon Hamm, Tim Robbins, and Geena Davis; --both 2017 Sundance Film Festival Selections; Take My Nose...Please!, released by The Orchard won the Audience Award at the Miami Film Festival in 2017; Equity, a 2016 Sundance Film Festival Selection; and the highly acclaimed Mad Hot Ballroom, which earned eight wins and nine nominations at key critics award competitions in 2005/2006.
On the television front, Cange recently was Supervising Producer on HBO’s limited series Hostages which chronicles the 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis. He produced Comedy Central's political satire The President Show: Special and National Geographic's series I Am Rebel, the first in a four-part miniseries. He also produced the television movie Footsteps In The Snow for A&E and Lifetime. In the same year, he line-produced Emmy-nominated, History Channel mini-Series The World Wars and Making Space, a full-length PBS documentary film about five accomplished female architects with renowned producer Ultan Guilfoyle. He recently wrapped the CBS/WBTV pilot East New York.
Cange is a member of the Producers Guild of America and is represented by Intrinsic Agency.
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ZACH BROWN
Co-writer
Zach Brown is an award-winning writer/director best known for writing/directing the feature film Hard Surfaces, which won Best Screenplay at Downtown Los Angeles Int. Film Festival, Best 1st Feature at WorldFest Houston, Best Director and Best of Fest at Idyllwild Int. Film Festival. Zach wrote and directed the docu-short The Mountain Man, which gained critical acclaim in North Carolina and Virginia.
As a writer, Zach is known for developing character-driven stories which explore the boundaries of genre. Zach co-wrote the feature spec script Taking Back Christmas, which ranked in the top 20% in the 2020 Nichols Fellowship, and is in development his directorial sophomore feature, The Hadley Project, which he wrote as well.
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