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The first look at director Shaun Paul Piccinino’s new film The Island has been released by MSR Media. The closeup image features actor Michael Jai White and Edoardo Costa engaged in high-octane hand-to-hand combat while the latter holds a knif, which gives the audience a taste of the upcoming action crime thriller.
The feature, which is currently in post-production, is based on an original story by Philippe Martinez, who co-wrote the script with Michael Cassie. It follows an LAPD officer (White) who takes down drug traffickers until his brother dies under mysterious circumstances. He then returns to his island home, to seek answers and gets into trouble with the corrupt tyc00n who has taken over the island paradise he once called home. Along with White and Costa, the cast also includes Jackson Rathbone and Gillian White.
Piccinino is known for features like American Fighter, Netflix hits like That’s Amor starring Riley Dandy, and Isaac Gonzalez Rossi, and A California Christmas and its sequel A California Christmas: City Lights. Jai White is known for features like, Spawn The Dark Knight, and also played the titular role in the blaxploitation parody film Black Dynamite. Costa’s credits include features like Fox’s Live Free and Die Hard, MSR Media’s Christmas in the Caribbean, Black Tulip, and Harold Guskin’s independent thriller Down the Shore starring alongside James Gandolfini and Famke Janssen.
Rathbone is perhaps best known for playing Jasper in The Twilight Saga, he was last seen in Valerie Weiss’ Mixtape starring alongside Gemma Brooke Allen, Nick Thune, and Julie Bowen. He’s also seen as Blue Scream in Netflix’s The Guardians of Justice, a satire of DC Comics and the Justice League. White, who often shares screen space with Jai White has features like Christian Sesma’s Take Back, Never Back Down: No Surrender, and Welcome To Sudden Death, to her credit
