Mikael Håfstrӧm Screenplay by Miles Chapman and Arnell Jesko

Tony Stark’s primary antagonist in Iron Man, Faran starred opposite Robert Downey, Jr., as ‘Raza,’ the leader of the Ten Rings terrorist group who orchestrated the attack on Tony Stark following the unveiling of his new defense missile in Afghanistan, which led to the necessity for the electromagnet grafted into Stark’s chest to keep the shrapnel shell shards that wounded from from reaching his heart and killing him.

Faran’s versatile acting talent also landed him roles in J.J. Abrams’s Star Trek, where he played the first Federation Captain of middle-eastern ethnicity in the history of the franchise—truly a groundbreaking role. His additional film credits range from roles in films such as Jennifer Aniston’s comedy Picture Perfect, to dramatic roles in films such as Charlie Wilson’s War with Tom Hanks and A Price above Rubies with Renée Zellweger.

Faran comes from a theatre family well-known in Pakistan and India where both his parents are actors/directors/writers in Pakistan. He completed his B.A. from University of California, Berkeley and his graduate degree from the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard.

Previously, D’Onofrio starred alongside Julia Ormond in the horror film Chained, directed by Jennifer Chambers Lynch. He also appeared in Fire with Fire opposite Bruce Willis, Josh Duhamel and Rosario Dawson.

D’Onofrio executive-produced Steal This Movie and portrayed 1960s counterculture icon Abbie Hoffman, opposite Janeane Garofalo. He played the villain vs. Jennifer Lopez and Vince Vaughn in Tarsem Singh’s sci-fi chiller The Cell. D’Onofrio worked with Vaughn again in the hit dramedy The Break Up.

Other film credits include The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, opposite Jodie Foster and Channing Tatum; The Salton Sea, alongside Val Kilmer; Impostor, with Gary Sinise; Chelsea Walls, directed by Ethan Hawke; Happy Accidents, co-starring Marisa Tomei; Robert Altman’s The Player, opposite Tim Robbins; Joel Schumacher’s Dying Young, with Julia Roberts; Tim Burton’s Ed Wood, opposite Johnny Depp; Kathryn Bigelow’s Strange Days, with Angela Bassett; Harold Ramis’ Stuart Saves His Family, with Al Franken; Barry Sonnenfeld’s Men in Black, opposite Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones; The Thirteenth Floor, alongside Craig Bierko; The Whole Wide World, which he produced and starred in opposite Renee Zellweger; Oliver Stone’s JFK, alongside Kevin Costner; Brooklyn’s Finest, with Richard Gere and Don Cheadle; and Staten Island, opposite Ethan Hawke.

Born in Brooklyn, D’Onofrio began studying acting at the American Stanislavski Theatre with Sharon Chatten of the Actors Studio. He first gained attention with his haunting portrayal of an unstable Vietnam War recruit in Stanley Kubrick’s gritty Full Metal Jacket (1987). His other early film appearances include Mystic Pizza and Adventures in Babysitting.

D’Onofrio directed, produced and starred in the short film Five Minutes, Mr. Welles. He also worked on the Academy Award-winning short The New Tenants.

In television, D’Onofrio is best known for starring on “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” as Detective Robert Goren in Season Eight. The role was so well received that he was brought back again for the show’s 10^th season.

D’Onofrio received an Emmy® nomination in 1998 for his riveting guest appearance in the “Homicide: Life on the Street” episode “The Subway.”

Away from the set, D’Onofrio enjoys spending time in New York with his family.
AMY RYAN (Abigail Ross) recently completed Birdman for director Alejandro González Iñárritu and Fox Searchlight. She stars along with Michael Keaton, Ed Norton, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts and Zach Galifianakis. She will have three other films premiere in 2013: writer/director Drake Doremus’ Breathe In produced by Indian Paintbrush and Jonathan Schwartz, in which she stars with Guy Pearce and Felicity Jones; Devil’s Knot directed by Atom Egoyan, co-starring with Colin Firth. She was last seen in Clear History directed by Greg Mottola for HBO in which she co-starred with Larry David and Jon Hamm.

  For her acclaimed performance in 2007’s Gone Baby Gone, she was recognized with Academy Award®, Golden Globe® and SAG Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress.  Additionally, she won numerous Best Supporting Actress awards including those from the National Board of Review, the Broadcast Film Critics Association, the New York Film Critics Circle and the L.A. Film Critics. Her other film credits include Win Win, Green Zone, Jack Goes Boating, Changeling, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, Capote, Dan in Real Life, War of the Worlds, Keane, You Can Count On Me and The Missing Person.

  Ms. Ryan returned to the stage this year, starring in Lisa D’Amour’s critically acclaimed play Detroit, directed by Anne Kauffman at Playwrights Horizons. Ryan made her Broadway debut in Wendy Wasserstein’s The Sisters Rosensweig. For her work in the 2000 production of Uncle Vanya, she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play.  In 2005, she appeared as Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire, earning her second Tony nomination.  She also starred in Neil LaBute’s The Distance From Here in London’s West End. 

  Amy’s television work includes her memorable portrayals as Holly Flax on “The Office,” Adele on “In Treatment” and Office Beatrice ‘Beadie’ Russell on “The Wire.”

Several feature highlights include Peacock, directed by Michael Lander and opposite Susan Sarandon, Cillian Murphy and Ellen Page; The Astronaut Farmer, directed by Michael Polish; the Michael Bay helmed Pearl Harbor; and perhaps most notably his roles as ‘L.D. Newsome’ in director Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain and as Detective Sgt. Dick Stensland opposite Russell Crowe, Kevin Spacey and Guy Pearce in Curtis Hanson’s award winning L.A. Confidential. Other film appearances include Vegas Baby; Hardball; Point of Origin; True Crime; Bulworth; Leaving Las Vegas; and The Paper Chase.

Beckel’s recent television credits include guest starring turns on “Longmire,”“Scandal,” “CSI: New York;” “Castle;” “The Cleaner;” “CSI: Miami;” “Heroes;” “Raines;” “Grey’s Anatomy;” and “Wanted.” BECKEL has also starred in over fifteen television movies, which include “In From the Night;” “Helter Skelter;” “The Pennsylvania Miner’s Story;” “The Other Mother;” “My Brother’s Keeper;” “Murder of

Innocence” and “Amerika.”

  Other recent TV credits include,  “Hawaii 5-0” for CBS,  NBC's “Grimm”, and the Shawn Ryan produced Sony/ABC pilot, “The Last Resort,” opposite Scott Speedman. 

  Gerald also co-starred in FROZEN GROUND with Nicolas Cage and John Cusack, and was just seen in Paramount's  G.I. Joe: Retaliation, with Dwayne Johnson, Channing Tatum, and Bruce Willis and Red Dawn among others.
CAITRIONA BALFE (Jessica Miller) is currently shooting the lead role of "Claire Beauchamp" in the Starz 1 hour series “Outlander,” based on the best-selling novels of the same name. She's shooting in Scotland and until August of 2014. She was last seen in the Intrepid thriller feature Crush and previously starred in J.J. Abrams’ Paramount feature SUPER 8, as well as Bryan Singer and Jason Taylor's digital series H+.

ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS

MIKAEL HÅFSTRÖM (Director) is an acclaimed director capable of great work in multiple genres. Most recently he directed Anthony Hopkins in the 2011 horror film The Rite, which revolved around an American seminary student (Colin O’Donoghue) who travels to Italy and enrolls in an exorcism school. Håfström previously directed John Cusack, Ken Watanabe and Jeffrey Dean Morgan in the period feature Shanghai; Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson in the thriller 1408; and Clive Owen and Jennifer Aniston in the suspenser Derailed.

Håfström’s previous writing and directing credits in his native Sweden include the gripping coming of age drama Evil, which was nominated for an Academy Award® in 2004 for Best Foreign Language Film, the thriller Drowning Ghost and the drama Days Like This, which won Sweden’s Guldbagge Award for Best Screenplay. His films have been invited to festivals around the world and at home Håfström has received multiple Guldbagge nominations, with Evil winning for Best Direction and Best Screenplay.

Håfström began his career in the late 1980s as an assistant director on Swedish television movies. He eventually began writing and directing for television before helming the action-thriller Vendetta, his first feature film. His writing credits include the action-comedy Kopps.
MILES CHAPMAN (Screenwriter) penned the script for the new TV series “Cybergeddon,” starring Missy Peregrym and Olivier Martinez. He is now writing Homelanders for Di Bonaventura Pictures and Summit Entertainment.

Born in Philadelphia, Chapman is a graduate of the American Repertory Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard. Previous scripts include Protection for Twentieth Century Fox, Road House 2 for Sony Pictures, Four 50s and Slipknot for Relativity Media and “Priceless” for ABC Television.

The writer lives in Los Feliz with his wife Erica and his two kids, Wyatt and Emily.
MARK CANTON (Producer) has been a preeminent force in the entertainment industry helping to bring more than 300 pictures to the screen in his capacity as a senior studio executive and producer. Canton controls a large number of high profile film and television projects in various stages of development, pre-production, production and post- production.

Currently being readied for a March 7th, 2014 release is 300: Rise of an Empire, the companion to the mega-hit, 300. It is written by Zack Snyder and Kurt Johnstad and is directed by Noam Murro for Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. based on Frank Miller’s latest graphic novel. And SITE 146, a horror film set against the intersection of ancient Egyptology and modern Archeology which Gregory Levasseur directed for Fox International Productions.

Shooting in February 2014 is Last Witch Hunter, a classic tale about an immortal witch hunter and a powerful warlock -- starring Vin Diesel, it is written by Corey Goodman with Breck Eisner set to direct for Summit Entertainment and Emmett/Furla Films.

In advanced development are:

-Crash Bandits, an adventure film with Rob Cohen directing for Millennium. Written by Michael Stokes, it will film in China.

Two other films on which Canton will be executive producer are scheduled to go into production this year. Outcast, an adventure-drama directed by Nick Powell and starring Nicolas Cage and Hayden Christiansen will shoot in China in September. And All Access, a romantic comedy written by Robert L. Flenoy will be directed by Stuart Renfrew on location in South Africa in October.

In the television arena, Canton has two projects that are being readied for production: Power, which was developed along with rapper Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson and CBS Studios for the Starz Network, with Courtney Kemp-Agboh (The Good Wife) as the writer/show runner. Power has been given an eight episode first season order and will shoot in New York City this fall. Also, Vanguard written by Christian Gudegast for FX, in the tone of Sons of Anarchy, but in the world of Navy Seals. Additionally, Canton has entered into a first look arrangement with Starz for the development and production of cutting edge, high-concept original programming for the network.

Amongst his notable films are 300, The Spiderwick Chronicles and Immortals. 300, based on the Frank Miller graphic novel and directed by Zack Snyder for Warner Bros Pictures, opened to record-setting box office numbers, having grossed more than $460 million worldwide and is the highest-grossing March release in the history of the motion picture business. The 300 DVD has set sales records around the world. The Spiderwick Chronicles, based on the best selling children books by Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black with Mark Waters (Mean Girls) directing, was released in February 2008 by Paramount Pictures and was the highest-grossing family film of early 2008. Immortals, an epic mythological tale set in war torn ancient Greece, was released on 11/11/11 and has since amassed a worldwide gross of almost $250 million.

He had two movies released in 2010: Letters to Juliet, a romantic drama for Summit Entertainment, which was directed by the late Gary Winick on location in Verona and Tuscany, Italy, and New York City, and Dimension Films’ Piranha 3D directed by Alexandre Aja, which Canton describes as “Jaws for a new generation.” Its sequel, Piranha 3DD, was released last year, also by Dimension.

After holding posts as President of Worldwide Theatrical Production at Warner Bros. where he was instrumental in creating the notable Batman, Lethal Weapon and National Lampoon’s Vacation film franchises and Chairman of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Companies, where he greenlit numerous highly popular, widely acclaimed award-winning films including As Good As It Gets, Jerry Maguire and Men in Black, Canton returned to Warner Bros. to create his own production entity, The Canton Company. In early 2002 he joined Artists Production Group as a partner, Chairman and CEO and in December 2003, he launched Atmosphere Entertainment MM – an entrepreneurial venture that develops, produces and finances theatrical motion pictures and television programming.

A native of New York, Canton is a UCLA graduate (magna cum laude) and a member of UCLA’s National Honor Society for American Studies. He delivered the 2011 commencement address at UCLA’s School of History. In addition to serving on the UCLA Board of Councilors and the Deans Advisory Board for the School of Theatre, Film, and Television, Canton was Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the American Film Institute and Founder and is Chairman Emeritus of AFI’s Third Decade Council.
One of the entertainment industry's most prolific film producers, RANDALL EMMETT (Producer) has produced over 50 feature films since his start as Mark Wahlberg’s assistant in the 1990’s.  Combining financial acumen with an incisive creative sensibility, Emmett is partner and co-founder alongside George Furla of Emmett / Furla Films, a production company dedicated to the development, financing and production of top tier filmed entertainment for the theatrical marketplace with its own equity fund.  Also, he is founder & partner of Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson's production company, Cheetah Vision Films.       

In the last decade, Emmett’s ability to package films with well-known actors and filmmakers resulted in major box office success – netting more than a quarter of a billion dollars in the US box office alone. Additionally, he forged strong partnerships with major Hollywood studios to finance and distribute commercial films to audiences both domestically and internationally. Aside from high concept films, Emmett also produced smaller, critically acclaimed indie fare such as Narc and Wonderland. These films and others played at world acclaimed film festivals such as Sundance, Toronto, Berlin, Venice, Telluride, and many have been nominated for Independent Spirit Awards and Golden Globe Awards.

In the past year, Emmett finished shooting Lone Survivor directed by Peter Berg, starring Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch and Emile Hirsh as well as 2 Guns, written by Steven Grant/Blake Master and directed by Baltasar Kormákur, starring Mark Wahlberg and Denzel Washington; Empire State, written by Adam Mazer and directed by Dito Montiel, starring Liam Hemsworth, Dwayne Johnson, and Emma Roberts. Additionally, he produced The Frozen Ground, written and directed by Scott Walker, starring Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, Vanessa Hudgens, and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson. 2 Guns & The Frozen Ground premiered Summer of 2013, and Lone Survivor will arrive in theaters January 2014.

Most recently, he signed on to finance & produce Martin Scorsese’s highly anticipated Silence and the Bruce Willis film Expiration. Other projects he will also finance & produce Everest with Working Title & Universal Pictures and Vin Diesel’s Last Witch Hunter with Summit & Lionsgate.

  Films that were recently released include: End of Watch, written and directed by David Ayer, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña; Lay the Favorite, with two-time Oscar nominated director Stephen Frears, starring Bruce Willis, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rebecca Hall, and Vince Vaughn; and Freelancers, starring Robert De Niro, Curtis“50 Cent” Jackson, and Forest Whitaker.

Past films include Bad Lieutenant, Righteous Kill, 88 Minutes, King of California, 16 Blocks and The Contract.

Born and raised in Miami, Emmett graduated from the respected performing arts high school, New World School Of The Arts. As an undergrad, he attended the prestigious The School of Visual Arts in NYC.  Presently, he speaks at various industry conferences and mentors up and coming filmmakers at UCLA’s School of Continuing Education. He lives in Los Angeles with his family.

Emmett co-manages the film production shingle Cheetah Vision with partner Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson.

  As President, Production, Brenner most recently Executive Produced the gritty dramatic thriller Out of the Furnace from the critically-acclaimed director Scott Cooper releasing on December 6, 2013. She was also integral in acquiring Joseph Gordon Levitt’s directorial debut, Don Jon from Sundance slated for September 27, 2013 and Echo, a found footage family adventure from Disney releasing in Spring of 2014. Currently, Brenner is in pre-production on the reinvention of the cult classic, The Crow and in post-production on the action-packed 3 Days to Kill helmed by McG.  Brenner also oversaw production and served as an Executive Producer on the comedy, 21 and Over, the film adaptation of Nicholas Sparks’ best-selling novel, Safe Haven, the family adventure, Mirror Mirror, and the 3D epic, Immortals. Brenner has also worked on The Fighter, Dear John, and was instrumental in acquiring Catfish. Before joining Relativity in 2009, Brenner produced Machine Gun Preacher starring Gerard Butler and directed by Golden-Globe nominated Marc Forster.  Outside of Relativity, Brenner is currently producing the AIDS drama, Dallas Buyers Club with Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner and Jared Leto with Jean-Marc Valle directing and Focus Features releasing on November 1, 2013.

  Brenner got her start in the film business after attending NYU Film School and worked at Miramax Films for nine years, where she cultivated great relationships with filmmakers as a production and development executive. During her time at Miramax, she became a Senior Vice President and worked on numerous films, including Peter Chelsom’s Serendipity, starring John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale, as well as the romantic comedy On the Line. She later went on to work at Twentieth Century Fox as Senior Vice President, Production between 2005 and 2006. There, Brenner was involved in acquiring and developing movies for the studio. Following her time at Fox, Brenner produced the romantic-thriller Deception, starring Hugh Jackman, Ewan McGregor, and Michelle Williams. In 2004, Brenner produced Haven, a Frank E. Flowers’ Cayman Islands crime drama featuring Orlando Bloom and Bill Paxton. Later, Brenner ran the classics division at Davis Entertainment. In 1997, Brenner worked with producer Michael Obel on Nightwatch, a Dimension Films release, starring Ewan McGregor and Patricia Arquette.

She began her entertainment career working for Mickey Rourke’s Red Ruby Productions, where she assisted in the production of Bullet, directed by Julien Temple, and the bank-heist dramedy Fall Time. 

The British-born King-Templeton has overseen some of the most astounding action sequences in motion picture history, including those shot on location in Bulgaria for The Expendables 2, directed by Simon West and starring Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Liam Hemsworth, Jet Li and Chuck Norris.

King-Templeton also produced The Expendables and Inferno: The Making of the Expendables, an independent documentary that gives audiences an unvarnished look deep inside the filmmaking process. Previously he produced Rambo, which was shot in the remote inner jungles of Burma, and Rocky Balboa, a critical and popular success.

Additional credits include Avenging Angelo, Driven, Get Carter and the critically acclaimed Cop Land, for director James Mangold.

For television King-Templeton developed and produced a pilot for Paramount Pictures Television and CBS entitled “Father Lefty.” He also executive-produced the highly anticipated musical production “Rocky,” based on the original 1976 Academy Award® winning motion picture. Launched by Stage Entertainment in Hamburg, Germany, the show will eventually make its way to Broadway.
After graduating from the University of Southern California with a degree in business administration, GEORGE FURLA (Executive Producer) started his business career with Cantor Fitzgerald and Company. At Cantor Fitzgerald he served as an equity trader from 1982 to 1985. After his run with Cantor Fitzgerald, Mr. Furla worked with Jones and Associates for 3 years in a similar capacity. In 1988, Mr. Furla left Jones and Associates to run a hedge fund, which he also established, specializing in Risk Arbitrage and equity trading. Mr. Furla ran the hedge fund for ten years after which he jointly formed a film production company with his partner, Randall Emmett. At Emmett/Furla Films Mr. Furla utilizes his hedge fund approach to model out film financing scenarios. Mr. Furla and Mr. Emmett share responsibility in both concept development and arrangement of the financing of the films. Emmett/Furla Films has produced a large number of films including End of Watch, Broken City, The Frozen Ground, Rambo, 16 Blocks, Wickerman, Righteous Kill, Conan the Barbarian, 2 Guns and Empire State.
Born in the UK, MARK STEWART (Executive Producer) obtained outstanding Master Degree honors in Cinema History from the prestigious Exeter University, before attending the world famous Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) drama school in London. His first producing credit was Fire with Fire (2012), starring Bruce Willis, and he has subsequently produced The Frozen Ground (2013), with Nicolas Cage, Empire State (2013) with The Rock and the TV series “SAF3,” with Dolph Lundgren. A member of the esteemed BAFTA organization, he is widely considered one of the UK's most exciting producers in the industry today.