Taylor Kitsch sure has a thing for Texas. After getting his big break in Peter Berg’s beloved football series, Friday Night Lights (which was based in West Texas), and more recently heading back to the Lone Star State to play cult leader David Koresh in Paramount’s Waco, he’s at it again in a feature-length production titled Eleven Days. The indie hostage thriller, helmed by filmmaker Peter Landesman (Parkland, Concussion), is set to film in Texas later this year. Unlike the movie, which takes place during a particularly brutally hot summer, cameras are set to pick up for this project in September.

Eleven Days will turn the clocks back to the brutally hot Texas summer of 1974 where audiences will meet Kitsch’s Jim Estelle. Jim is the head of the Texas Department of Corrections, and a no-nonsense man at that. But, he meets his match that sweltering summer when Federico Carrasco, a convicted and notorious heroin dealer, launches a plan to escape from Huntsville Penitentiary. Unfortunately for Carrasco, his breakout quickly goes off the rails, which leads him to take dozens hostage in hopes of making out from behind the cement walls and barbed wire fences. As the two men clash in their push to get what they want, the lines of morality begin to blur and each is forced to question if the means justify the ends.

Perhaps the wildest part about the entire story behind Eleven Days is that it’s non-fiction. The screenplay comes from Kevin Sheridan with revisions by Landesman, but the pair based their work on William T. Harper’s book, Eleven Days In Hell: The 1974 Carrasco Prison Siege at Huntsville, Texas, which better fleshes out what audiences are in for when the film eventually arrives in cinemas.

Taylor Kitsch’s Busy Year

Since gaining popularity more than 25 years ago through Friday Night Lights, Kitsch hasn’t taken much time to slow down, but 2025 is certainly one of his busiest yet. Earlier this year, he reunited with Berg for the filmmaker’s Netflix series, American Primeval, which charted the course of the early days of Mormonism when the United States government and the blossoming religion were at bloody and brutal odds. Next up, he’ll appear alongside Luke Hemsworth and Tom Hopper in the prequel series, The Terminal List: Dark Wolf, which will put the focus on Kitsch’s character, Ben Edwards. The Prime Video production is set for an arrival later this summer on August 28.

As of right now, Eleven Days hasn’t set a release window

via Collider