2014 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Tristan Patterson’s Electric Slide

With heavy critical praise (we were huge fans of the film here on the site) his award-winning debut Dragonslayer (Grand Jury Prize Winner for Best Documentary at SXSW in 2011) made the type of waves that essentially jettisoned it’s filmmaker into a larger land of opportunity and a rapid shift from docu to narrative. Tristan Patterson didn’t rob the bank, but lucked out with what looks to be a heck of a modern Bonnie & Clyde tale in Electric Slide which will feature the name cast of Jim Sturgess, Isabel Lucas, Vinessa Shaw, Chloë Sevigny, Patricia Arquette and Christopher Lambert. Production began  in October of 2012, so this is more than ready to showcase and find a distribution deal.

Gist: Based on the article “The Yankee Bandit: The Life and Times of Eddie Dodson, World’s Great Bank Robber”, written by Timothy Ford and scripted by Patterson, this tells the true story of suave hipster and celebrity-magnet Eddie Dodson, who in 1980s Los Angeles owned and ran one of the city’s most stylish art deco furniture stores and happened to rob a bank to impress his new girlfriend and became a serial robber known as “The Gentleman Bandit”.

Production Co./Producers: Myriad Pictures’ Kirk D’Amico (Margin Call), Skyscraper Films’ Hans Ritter (Sound of My Voice) & Killer Films’ Christine Vachon (Magic Magic)

Prediction: Smells more like a Premieres category offering, with little chances of showing up in the U.S. Dramatic Competition section. SXSW programmers are already in the loop for this one.

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
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