SMS was filled with around 100 workers and cast members this weekend as they were shooting scenes for an upcoming movie. Grace Van Patten and Jovan Adepo are set to star in writer-director Kerem Sanga’s drama The Violent Heart. Production is set to begin February in middle Tennessee.
The picture is a coming-of-age romance set in Tennessee about a college-bound senior on the cusp of graduation, and her budding relationship with a local mechanic named Daniel (Adepo), who himself dreams of becoming a Marine. As they fall for one another, the details surrounding Daniel’s tragic and violent past inevitably catch up with them.
Van Patten recently finished Under The Silver Lake opposite Andrew Garfield and co-stars in the Noah Baumbach-directed The Meyerowitz Stories. Adepo recently wrapped production for Paramount & Bad Robot’s WW2 thriller Overlord and he had a breakout performance in the Denzel Washington-directed Fences and did two seasons on HBO’s The Leftovers.
Kereem Sanga - Director
Jovan Adepo
Grace Van Patten
Mary J. Blige
Lukas Haas