'Holy Rollers' Director Kevin Asch Boards Crime Drama 'Zealous' - range

"Holy Rollers" director Kevin Asch is on board to helm Israeli crime drama "Zealous," range has realized exclusively.

Asch will re-crew with "Holy Rollers" actor/producer Danny A. Abeckaser on "Zealous," which might be set in ny metropolis with capturing beginning in the fall.

The story, written by means of Asch, Abeckaser and Jon Carlo, centers on an Israeli ex-con with a violent past who joins a burgeoning Israeli crime syndicate in Brooklyn amidst a brutal turf warfare with the Russian mob. Abeckaser will megastar and produce.

"i used to be straight drawn to the material of the film," Asch said. "Danny and that i are enthusiastic about exploring cultural add-ons in classic crime dramas. The challenge as a director is to not let the trimmings of the style confine the narrative, but rather, to create unsuitable characters with souls, who deliver a deliberate voice and path to our story.

"Holy Rollers" starred Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Bartha, Ari Graynor, Q-Tip and Jason Fuchs, along with Abeckasser. Written through Antonio Macia, "Holy Rollers" become inspired by means of the actual events of the late Nineteen Nineties when Hasidic Jews had been recruited to smuggle ecstasy into the united states.

Asch gained the breakthrough director award on the 2010 Gotham Awards for "Holy Rollers." He also directed 2014's "Affluenza."

Abeckaser starred in "A stand up man" as a mobster who attempts stand-up comedy while in the Witness coverage program. He also appeared in "The Wolf of Wall road."