I think we’ve ignored that far too long.” “It’s disturbing, but school shootings have always been a part of my reality, and the reality of my generation. “I remember being in school and daydreaming about how I would fight to protect my friends from a potential shooter,” Isabel May, who plays Hull, tells THR. But by focusing on the victims, and, in particular Zoe Hull, a shy, emotionally-traumatized 17-year-old who decides to resist, Run Hide Fight - the title comes from the advice American pupils are given in the case of a live shooter event - could play to mainstream audiences like a powerful expression of wish-fulfillment. Produced by Dallas-based Cinestate - whose credits include exploitation thrillers Bone Tomahawk and Dragged Across Concrete - Rankin’s film wears its B-movie tropes on its sleeve, even down to the “un-killable last villain” in the final reel. As Rooney grudgingly acknowledged, the film is “slick and compulsively watchable,” and Rankin, director of 2003’s The Battle of Shaker Heights, “knows his way around efficient thriller construction.” But Voltage Pictures, which is selling Run Hide Fight worldwide, can expect a warmer welcome from genre-friendly buyers at the American Film Market. Run Hide Fight did look out of place among the art-house and high-brow fare of Venice. “This is Die Hard in a high school,” notes The Hollywood Reporter ‘s lead critic David Rooney, echoing the majority of critics who panned the film when it first premiered, out of competition, at the Venice Film Festival earlier this year. Fox Entertainment Boss Charlie Collier to Give Mipcom Keynote

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