Fresh off his first Emmy nomination for The White Lotus, Jason Isaacs is heading to Texas — 1974 Texas, to be exact — for the upcoming hostage thriller Eleven Days. Isaacs will star alongside Taylor Kitsch and Diego Luna in the tense indie drama from Parkland and Concussion director Peter Landesman.

Based on the real-life Carrasco Prison Siege, Eleven Days unfolds during a sweltering Texas summer when ruthless prisoner Federico Carrasco (Luna) seizes control of Huntsville Penitentiary. Isaacs plays Father Joseph O’Brien, a prison priest who steps directly into harm’s way, joining forces with Texas Department of Corrections head Jim Estelle (Kitsch). By offering himself as a hostage, O’Brien hopes to outmaneuver Carrasco and save the lives of the other captives trapped inside. The screenplay, written by Kevin Sheridan with revisions by Landesman, adapts William T. Harper’s nonfiction account Eleven Days in Hell: The 1974 Carrasco Prison Siege at Huntsville, Texas. Vincent Newman and Vance Howard will produce, with filming set to kick off in Texas this September.

Isaacs’ casting comes on the heels of his acclaimed turn as Timothy Ratliff in The White Lotus Season 3, where he starred opposite Parker Posey, Sarah Catherine Hook, Sam Nivola, and Patrick Schwarzenegger. That performance has earned him a Supporting Actor Emmy nomination, adding to a career that’s seen him play everything from Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter franchise to Captain Lorca in Star Trek: Discovery. Outside of Eleven Days, Isaacs is keeping busy. He’ll soon begin production opposite Maika Monroe on the psychological horror-thriller Victorian Psycho, and he’s set to appear in the indie Honey Bunch, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year and will make its North American debut at TIFF.

What Is ‘Eleven Days’ About?

Luna is paying the convicted heroin kingpin Federico Carrasco whose desperate attempt to escape sets off a days long standoff all set within a Texas prison. Kitsch portrays Jim Estelle, the head of the Texas Department of Corrections, who ends up going head to head with Carrasco, and as the siege escalates and hostages’ lives hang in the balance, the boundaries between justice and survival begin to blur.

via Collider