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On February 12, 2021, shortly after being fired from the Disney+ Star Wars series The Mandalorian after several controversial political statements she made on social media, Deadline reported that Gina Carano would be producing and starring in a feature film with conservative media company The Daily Wire. The project was intended to be a film adaptation of the thriller novel White Knuckle by Eric Red, who was attached to write the script. It was scheduled to begin production in October 2021 in Tennessee, Utah, and Montana, and was set to be released exclusively to subscribers of The Daily Wire in the United States, with Voltage Pictures handling international distribution. However, it was cancelled by the fall of that year due to Carano's refusal to comply with the COVID-19 mask and vaccine requirements.
Plot[]
The story would've followed a strong-willed woman who survived an attempted murder by a serial killer-trucker called “White Knuckle”. Haunted by her encounter and the cops’ inability to catch her tormentor, she partners with a trucker to end the killer’s reign of terror.
Cast[]
- Gina Carano
Rest of the cast is unknown.
Why It Was Cancelled[]
- According to Gina Carano and Daily Wire co-founder and then-co-CEO Jeremy Boreing, the film was cancelled due to Carano's refusal to comply with the Hollywood COVID-19 mask and vaccine requirements during the COVID-19 pandemic (mentioned above). As a result, Carano and The Daily Wire decided to work on a different project that would be filmed entirely in Montana.
Results[]
- After plans for the White Knuckle film were scrapped, a completely original film produced by and starring Gina Carano titled Terror on the Prairie, which was filmed and set entirely in Montana, was produced instead and was released by The Daily Wire on June 14, 2022.
- As of 2025, there are currently no plans for any media adaptation of White Knuckle. It remains as a novel.
External links[]
- https://deadline.com/2021/02/gina-carano-mandalorian-ben-shapiro-hits-back-cancel-culture-1234692971/
- https://deadline.com/2021/08/gina-carano-mandalorian-new-movie-daily-wire-hitcher-eric-red-1234812717/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20221003194800/https://www.newstbt.com/post/gina-carano-cans-movie-over-vaccine-mandate-moves-production-to-red-state