Vertical Entertainment has released a trailer for its upcoming crime noir thriller Akilla’s Escape. This actually looks like it’ll be a really good flick!
The story follows a man named Akilla Brown (Saul Williams), “a forty-years-old and for the first time in his life, the clandestine cannabis grow operation he runs is legit. Only one year into government approved legalization, the pendulum of hypocrisy takes a toll and Akilla decides to cash out. While making a routine delivery on a cool, summer night, destiny takes an unexpected turn when Akilla confronts a firestorm of masked youths in an armed robbery. In the aftermath of the heist, Akilla captures one of the thieves, a mute 15-year-old boy named Sheppard. Upon learning the bandits are affiliated with the Garrison Army, a Jamaican crime syndicate his grandfather founded, Akilla is forced to reckon with a cycle of violence he thought he escaped.”
The movie was directed by Charles Officer (Nurse.Fighter.Boy) and it will be released in select US theaters and on VOD starting June 11th, 2021.
