EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Fifth Season has landed rights to High Rise, the 2025 thriller novel from bestselling Australian author Gabriel Bergmoser. They’ve set Bergmoser to pen a feature adaptation and Patrick Hughes to direct, in a reunion with and Huge Film following their work on the recent Netflix hit War Machine.
Billed as Die Hard meets The Raid, High Rise follows a rogue ex-cop who tracks down his estranged daughter to a grimy high-rise — only to find she doesn’t want to be rescued, least of all by him. Before either can react, the entire city’s criminal underworld descends on the building with a bounty on his head and no concern for her survival. Floor by floor, a broken father and daughter must fight their way through fifteen stories of killers with only each other to rely on.
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