Kiefer Sutherland in Talks for House of Reckoning, Taking Aim at a Corrupt Town
Kiefer Sutherland is in talks for House of Reckoning, a revenge thriller that drags him back to his hometown to expose a brutal criminal empire and bring a corrupt town to its knees.
Kiefer Sutherland is circling a new revenge-thriller that sounds very Kiefer: small town, big rot, lots of payback. He is in advanced talks to lead a movie called House of Reckoning, with Vaughn Stein (Terminal) directing and Chuck Hustmyre scripting.
What the movie is
Sutherland would play a retired lawman who heads back to his dying hometown after his brother turns up dead under sketchy circumstances. Once he starts poking around, he finds a slick, sadistic local kingpin running a whole operation built on fear, bribery, drugs, and human trafficking. The deeper he digs, the messier it gets, until the investigation turns into a one-man war against an entire town that forgot what a moral line looks like.
Yes, the title looks weird in the quotes
The project is being referred to as House of Reckoning. But in statements from the team, they call it Hour of Reckoning. That sure reads like a slip, but if you see both versions floating around, that is why.
Who is making it and when
Production is aiming to start early next year. Concourse Media is taking the package to buyers at the American Film Market this week.
- Director: Vaughn Stein (Terminal)
- Writer: Chuck Hustmyre
- Producers: Mike Gabrawy (Midnight Express); Thunder Road trio Basil Iwanyk, Erica Lee, and Will Flynn; Richard Lewis for Southpaw
- Sales: Concourse Media (launching at AFM)
Concourse is billing it as a thriller with actual feeling under the gunfire, and the producers are talking about it like a lean, throwback revenge piece. Translation: they want this to play like a character-first bruiser, not just noise and muzzle flashes.
"Hour Of Reckoning is a brutal and deeply human story - a modern western about justice, guilt, and redemption. It's about a man standing alone against decay and violence, and Kiefer brings the weight and soul that makes it real."
Meanwhile, Sutherland stays busy
On top of this, Sutherland is currently shooting Father Joe, an action thriller set in 1990s Manhattan that Luc Besson is writing and producing. Sutherland plays a man of the cloth who takes the fight to the city’s underworld, and Al Pacino is on board as a mob boss whose empire collides with Father Joe’s holy crusade.
If House of Reckoning locks in, expect Sutherland doing what he does best: glowering at bad men, breaking the rules to nail them anyway, and turning a rotten town upside down to get answers.