Zachary Levi, Josh Duhamel Thriller ‘Not Without Hope’ Lands December Release (Exclusive)

Zachary Levi, Josh Duhamel Thriller ‘Not Without Hope’ Lands December Release (Exclusive)

A survival thriller starring Zachary Levi and Josh Duhamel is heading to theaters later this year. Inaugural Entertainment has acquired domestic distribution rights to director Joe Carnahan‘s Not Without Hope and is set to release the film theatrically on Dec. 12, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned. JoBeth Williams, Quentin Plair, Terrence Terrell, Marshall Cook…

A survival thriller starring Zachary Levi and Josh Duhamel is heading to theaters later this year.

Inaugural Entertainment has acquired domestic distribution rights to director Joe Carnahan‘s Not Without Hope and is set to release the film theatrically on Dec. 12, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned. JoBeth Williams, Quentin Plair, Terrence Terrell, Marshall Cook and Floriana Lima round out the cast for the feature that premieres at the Austin Film Festivalon Oct. 25.

Not Without Hope centers on the real-life story of a tragic 2009 fishing trip for four friends: Nick Schuyler (Levi) and Will Bleakley (Cook), who played football at the University of South Florida, and NFL players Marquis Cooper (Plair) and Corey Smith (Terrell). The group gets stranded at sea off the coast of Florida when their boat capsizes, leading Coast Guard Captain Timothy Close (Duhamel) to oversee the efforts to bring them home as a storm looms.

Carnahan helmed the movie from a script he penned with E. Nicholas Mariani. Hailing from Highland Film Group, the film is based on Schuyler and Jeré Longman’s best-selling 2010 book of the same name. Director Steven Cantor’s documentary Four Down, which is based on Schuyler’s story, premiered earlier this year at the Sunscreen Film Festival and is being held for release once Not Without Hope finishes its theatrical and VOD run.