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\n\tScott Adkins<\/a> and Lewis Tan<\/a> are keeping up the action star bromance and together will lead Deadlocked<\/a><\/em>, about a deadly siege in which a group of jurors come under attack.<\/p>\n \n\tPre-production on the pic is has begun, with Tan overseeing the action design in collaboration with a fight choreographer and Roel Rein\u00e9 (Classified<\/em>) directing. Collin Armstrong is the writer, with Film Mode Entertainment,\u00a0Vault Entertainment,\u00a0Rebel Entertainment\u00a0and\u00a0In Tandem Productions all attached. Production is slated for late this year.<\/p>\n \n\tFilm Mode will introduce the project to buyers at the Cannes Film Festival<\/a> as it launches worldwide sales.<\/p>\n \n\tThe plot is based around a routine jury site visit that turns deadly when a mercenary kill team led by Hewitt (Adkins) storms the location in search of a secret ledger detailing citywide corruption. Trapped inside, a disgraced ex-cop-turned-bailiff (Tan) must protect the surviving jurors and battle the attackers outside while exposing a traitor within.<\/p>\n \n\tThe news comes less than a week after we were first with the news<\/a> Adkins is making his directorial debut with MMA action pic Brawler<\/a><\/em>, which also stars Tan and is launching in Cannes via Capture. <\/p>\n \n\tMelanie DiPietro and Samantha Simon from In Tandem developed the idea for Deadlocked<\/em> with Rein\u00e9 and his Rebel banner. All three are producers alongside Craig Baumgarten and\u00a0Mike Staudt from Vault, and Sean Patrick O\u2019Reilly from Arcana.\u00a0Clay Epstein\u00a0of\u00a0Film Mode serves as executive producer.<\/p>\n \n\tTan is known for playing the lead in the 2021 reboot of Mortal Kombat<\/em> and has had roles in Deadpool 2<\/em>, Wu Assassins<\/em>, Shadow and Bone<\/em> and Cobra Kai<\/em>, and he is set to reprise his role as Cole Young in Mortal Kombat II<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\tAction genre stalwart Adkins is known for the Undisputed<\/em> franchise, and has had roles in John Wick: Chapter 4<\/em>,\u00a0The Expendables 2<\/em>, and\u00a0Ip Man 4<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source deadline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Scott Adkins and Lewis Tan are keeping up the action star bromance and together will lead Deadlocked, about a deadly siege in which a group of jurors come under attack. Pre-production on the pic is has begun, with Tan overseeing the action design in collaboration with a fight choreographer and Roel Rein\u00e9 (Classified) directing. Collin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2415429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[472796,326557,466474,472797,472745,385788],"class_list":["post-2415428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-brawler","tag-cannes-film-festival","tag-cannes-market","tag-deadlocked","tag-lewis-tan","tag-scott-adkins"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Scott-Adkins-And-Lewis-Tan-To-Star-In-Siege-Thriller.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2415428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2415430,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415428\/revisions\/2415430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2415429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2415428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2415428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2415428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}