German director Marc Schoelermann will helm Australian-European co-production The Domestique, which centres on the famous Tour de France pro-cycling race.
The film follows the trials of a veteran pro cyclist, banned for blood doping, who’s trying to pick up the pieces of his life. He fights his way back onto a struggling team and gets one last chance to finish the Tour, trying to win back his estranged wife and son in the process.
Schoelermann directed 2008 crime-thriller Pathology and is a well-known commercials director in Europe. Rob Gibson and Matt Teffer have penned the script for The Domestique. Gibson is also producing the film under the Known Associates banner, the production partnership he set up with Aussie director Josh Reed (Primal).
The project is currently being financed and is expected to take advantage of European production subsidies, according to Gibson.
Known Associates also has several other projects underway including an action/horror pic, while Gibson is producing Australian surf/crime pic Sons of Salt, which will star Alex Russell (Chronicle).
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