Rich Young Adults are Forced to Survive on an Island in Trailer for BILLIONAIRE RANSOM
We’ve got a trailer for an interesting new film coming out called Billionaire Ransom which features a bunch of spoiled rich young adults whose parents have them snatched out of their privileged lives and taken to an island where they will learn to change their bad behavior. That island is then taken over by a group of mercenaries who take them hostage and are holding them for ransom. The kids are then forced into a situation where they have to fight back and survive. I guess who you root for in this movie all depends on your opinion of rich people. Here’s the synopsis:
The story follows a group of over-privileged, out-of-control young adults who have been sent by their frustrated, billionaire parents to a tough-love wilderness school on a remote island off the coast of Scotland. Kyle (Sumpter) and Amy (Tonkin) find themselves in this group as a last opportunity for them to take responsibility for their own lives and abandon their reckless ways, or risk being disinherited. Suddenly, a group of mercenaries led by Billy Speck (Westwick) invade the island and hold the privileged lot hostage for the largest ransom in history: one billion dollars. When Kyle learns they are all to be killed even if the ransom is paid, their wilderness survival training is the only hope of outwitting the mercenaries and staying alive.
The film was directed by filmmaker Jim Gillespie (Venom, I Know What You Did Last Summer), from a screenplay by Alexander Ignon. It opens in theaters and on VOD August 19th.