Felicity Huffman, Victor Garber and Ted Levine to join cast of 'Big Game' starring Samuel L. Jackson

Here is the first production still from Jalmari Helander's film 'Big Game', which is to be released in 2014. The story is about a 13-year-old camping in the woods helping the President of the United States after he is stranded in the wilderness following a terrorist attack on the Air Force One. It will star Samuel L. Jackson as the President and young Onni Tommila as the kid.

News today is that joining the cast in the final weeks of the shoot will be Felicity Huffman (Transamerica, Desperate Housewives) playing the 'CIA Director', Victor Garber (Titanic, Argo) playing the vice-president and Ted Levine (The Silence of the Lambs, American Gangster) playing General Underwood. They will join the previously announced big name cast to include Jim Broadbent (Iris, The Iron lady) and Ray Stevenson (Thor, GI Joe: Retaliation).

With this film, Helander aims to tie universal rite-of-passage films of the 80s such as E.T. and The Karate Kid with the high action thriller such as Die Hard and Taken. Director and co-writer Helander has commented; "Big Game is an action adventure story on an epic scale. I'm delighted to be taking this genre on as it has always been very close to my heart, as action packed adventure stories contain the elements that I believe make movies that are worth watching."

A Finnish-German-UK co-production, Petri Jokiranta produces under the Subzero banner, alongside Will Clarke and Andy Mayson for Altitude Film Entertainment, with Jens Meurer of Egoli Tossell Film as the German producer. Alex Garland (28 Days Later, Dredd) is executive producer. Financiers include: Finnish Film Foundation; YLE; Nordisk Film & TV Fond; Visionplus Fund; Bavarian Film Partners; Bavarian Film and Television Fund (FFFBayern); German Federal Film Fund (DFFF), along with Comerica Bank Entertainment Group and KfW Bankengruppe.Development and bridge-financing has been provided by Headgear, Film House Germany and Merg Films. BIG GAME is the first international project to have received backing from FFF Bayern’s special programme for international co-productions.