NEW YORK, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- I Know What You Did You Last Summer, Gosford Park and Crash actor Ryan Phillippe says the father-daughter story at the center of One Mile and its sequel One Mile: Chapter Two is what initially attracted him to starring in the two-part action-thriller.
Helmed by La Brea, Deadwood and Lost director Adam Davidson, the films cast Phillippe as Danny, a former special forces operative trying to re-connect with his teenage daughter Alex (Amelie Hoeferle) during a college road trip when she is kidnapped by members of an off-the-grid community.
The Outsiders and Red Dawn icon C. Thomas Howell plays Stanley, the leader of the group, which seeks women from the outside world to have their children.
The project marks a reunion between Phillippe and Aaron Kaplan, his producer on the 2015 series, Secrets and Lies.
"We had a prior working relationship and he called me up one day and pitched this idea that was born out of a real-life situation where he was taking his daughter on college tours," Phillippe, 51, told UPI in a recent Zoom interview.
