Ryan Phillippe and Rachelle Lefevre have joined the cast of Reclaim, Australian director Alan White’s thriller now underway in Puerto Rico.
The film was due to shoot in Australia but the location changed after the producers, who include Ian Sutherland and Australian director Robert Luketic via their company Origin Productions, had their bid for funding rejected by Screen Australia.
Phillippe and Lefevre (The Twilight Saga) play an American couple who are mourning the death of their unborn child in a car accident. They head to Puerto Rico to adopt an orphan from Haiti, who disappears from their hotel room.
Jacki Weaver plays the owner of the international adoption agency, John Cusack is a former Marine and Afghanistan veteran who has an altercation with the couple and Luis Guzmán (We're the Millers) is the local police chief who gets involved in the case.
The script is by Luke Davies (Candy) and Carmine Gaeta. The other producers are Paradox Entertainment’s Fredrik Malmberg and Silvio Muraglia, Brian and Josh Etting of Garlin Pictures and Arclight Films' Gary Hamilton and Mike Gabrawy. Arclight is handling international sales and will pitch the project at next week's American Film Market.
The L.A.-based White made his directing debut with Erskineville Kings, a 1999 drama that starred Hugh Jackman and Joel Edgerton.