Actors Ryan Phillipe, Emile Hirscg, Mena Suvari are set to feature in the upcoming action thriller titled Kalahari. Backed by Vertical, the filming has been wrapped up.

Written and helmed by Mukunda Michael Dewil, the upcoming film is about a young couple who are made to flee their Christian missionary post in Kalahari desert, after their lives are endangered by extremist militant group. However their plane loses control and as it crash lands, the couple must survive by escaping harsh conditions and groups that hunt them down.

The film also stars Dylan Flashner, Tristan Thompson, Jeremy Tardy, Michaela Sasner among others. Robert Ogden Barnum, one of the producers of the film, was quoted as saying, “Kalahari has been a great experience. Mukunda created a visual, and visceral, experience for moviegoers. And with our many collaborations, I know the project is in great hands with Vertical and Voltage taking it on.”