‘Re-Uniting’ Filmmaker Laura Adkin to Direct Best-Selling Author Catherine McKenzie’s First Movie Script (Exclusive)

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Re-Uniting director Laura Adkin and producer Krista Rand are reteaming for Out of Luck, a female-driven heist movie based on a first screenplay by best-selling thriller author Catherine McKenzie.

The feature will center on a group of defiant women determined to make their own luck on St. Patrick’s Day as they plot revenge on the man who wronged them by pulling off a suspenseful heist of his Irish bars, according to a synopsis from the filmmakers. Vancouver producer Flat/Head Films nabbed the rights to McKenzie’s original script to be helmed by Adkin in Budapest as a co-production with Hungary’s Scripted Productions.

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“When Catherine came to me with this idea, I jumped at the opportunity to work with her on it. Out of Luck is a high-stakes, suspenseful, female-driven heist movie with a unique Canadian flair,” Adkin said in a statement. Her feature debut Re:Uniting,

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