Samuel L. Jackson to Play the President in Action Movie "The Beast"

Production is set to get underway in Spain on September 4 on Samuel L. Jackson and Joel Kinnaman's action movie "The Beast."

The film’s title nods to a presidential limousine nicknamed "The Beast" by the Secret Service. In the movie, when a militia of unidentified hostiles coordinates a coup against the U.S., the President (played by Jackson) uncovers the extent of The Beast’s highly classified offensive capabilities.

Guy Burnet (Oppenheimer) is joining the cast as the main adversary to Jackson’s President. The filming is due to take place in the Canary Islands and Madrid.

James Madigan (The Meg second unit director) is helming from a script by Umair Aleems (Kate). 

Keith Kjarval (upcoming Tin Soldier) is producing through his Unified Pictures banner alongside Wayne Marc Godfrey (Wind River) and Nicki Cortese (Ricky Stanicky) for Bright White Light who are also financing the film. 

Fifth Season (Ambulance), John Logan Pierson (It Ends with Us), and Peter Berg (Lone Survivor) are also producing. WME Independent is handling sales.

Alexis Garcia, Chase Vergari, Ibrahim Mohammed, Chris Bremble, Dru Davis, and Christian Juptner are executive-producing alongside Matthew Cohen, Andrew Kottlier and Jeremie Guiaraud for MEP Capital.

Executive producers also include Molly C. Quinn, Matthew M. Welty and Elan Gale for QWGmire as well as Gianni Benvenuto, Dominic Benvenuto and Paul Currie for Marksx Media, and Herbert L. Kloiber and James Copp for Night Train Media. Aleems is also an EP; as is Ben Ruffman for Unified Pictures. Orca 3 and Nostromo’s Adrian Guerra are co-producing.