Padre Movie Updates

Fri., Apr. 11, 2014

from The Hollywood Reporter

Screen Gems Picks Up Action Script 'Padre'

Screen Gems is strapping on a clerical collar and a gun to pick up Padre, a spec script by Mike Maples.

• changed the production status to Announced
• added Markerstone Pictures as a production company
• added Sony Screen Gems as a distributor
• added action as genre
• added Greg Champion as producer to credits
• added Mark Lawyer as producer to credits
• added Mike Maples as screenwriter to credits
• added a synopsis

• A priest, trying to atone for his bloody past as a special ops soldier, witnesses the brutal murder of members from his congregation by a malevolent Sheriff and his deputies. Tortured and left for dead in the desert, he survives. Then, he faces a cri... show all sis of conscience and the dawning realization that his past military training and three tours in Afghanistan may have been preparation for what his soul and his heart tell him is right. From there it goes all bad for the crooked cops.

• created the movie profile