Boss Media rousts 'Wake Cycle'

Boss Media originates aboard "Wake Cycle," getting upset up Christian Cantamessa and Chris Pasetto's postapocalyptic sci-fi spec. A partnership between Frank Mancuso Junior. and Eric Gores, Boss will fund production and begin casting immediately. Cantamessa, lead designer and co-author in the vidgame "Red-colored-colored Dead Redemption," will direct with Mancuso and Gores professional creating. Pic happens inside an undercover hyperbaric facility, where the world's finest scientists they fit carrying out a nuclear fallout. "Wake Cycle" means one hour half an hour of accessible air every six several days that allows two custodial employees to help keep the power -- however, if among their sleep tanks is damaged, they take part in a existence-and-dying struggle. Cantamessa has labored just like a designer inside the gaming industry since 1996 and contains written and designed numerous games for Rockstar, including "Manhunt," "Manhunt 2" and "Grand Robbery Auto: San Andreas." Cantamessa and Pasetto co-written the indie film "Generate An Earnings Managed to get the Zombie Apocalypse." Jennifer Nieves is controlling "Wake Cycle" for Boss. She's also being careful of "Olivia Twisted," which Boss acquired lately to produce with Michael P Luca Prods. the ultramodern undertake the Dickens tale stars "Twilight" star Ashley Greene, as Variety first reported Sept. 13. Cantamessa and Pasetto are represented by CAA by Adam Marshall and Brooklyn Weaver of a person's Entertainment. Boss Media, repped by Paradigm, produced and funded rom-com "Ten Year," which opened up as of this year's Toronto Intl. Film Festival. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com