Taylor Kitsch to Star in Gritty Survival Thriller ELEVEN DAYS
Taylor Kitsch is stepping back into intense, high-stakes territory with a new survival thriller titled Eleven Days.
Set in the blistering Texas summer of 1974, the film casts Kitsch as Jim Estelle, the head of the Texas Department of Corrections, who finds himself locked in a deadly standoff with a convicted heroin dealer holding dozens hostage inside a local prison.
The story unfolds over eleven long days as a failed escape spirals into a tense siege. The official synopsis teases a psychological edge: “Lines between captor and captive, justice and survival, begin to blur as the siege spirals for 11 endless, terrifying days.”
Eleven Days is based on the real-life events chronicled in the book Eleven Days In Hell: The 1974 Carrasco Prison Siege at Huntsville, Texas by William T. Harper. Peter Landesman (Concussion, Parkland) is set to direct and co-write the screenplay, with Kevin Sheridan providing the first draft.
This marks another gritty project for Kitsch, who’s no stranger to roles rooted in military, survival, and psychological tension. He first broke out as Tim Riggins in Friday Night Lights and later went on to headline major projects like Disney’s John Carter, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Battleship, and HBO’s The Normal Heart alongside Julia Roberts and Mark Ruffalo.
More recently, he appeared in Netflix’s Painkiller and American Primeval. Up next, Kitsch returns to the Terminal List universe in the upcoming prequel series Dark Wolf, which will dig into the backstory of his character, Ben Edwards.