Malaysian Thriller FULL THROTTLE Bags FURIOUS 7 DP Stephen Windon To Direct

This will mark the directorial debut for Windon, who shot Fast Five, Furious 6 and the billion-dollar behemoth Furious 7, as well as a number of other high-profile blockbusters including G.I. Joe: Retaliation and HBO's epic mini-series The Pacific. He's also lined up to shoot the third Star Trek film for Paramount.

Full Throttle follows a motorcycle racer who, after a career-ending crash during a race in Singapore, plies his skills as a courier in Kuala Lumpur.  After his girlfriend is abducted, he is forced to crisscross the city against the clock, avoiding capture by relentless authorities while being blackmailed to perform escalating acts of crime by a twisted criminal mastermind. In other words, the kind of film that gets the folks at ScreenAnarchy out of bed in the morning.

The film's producers include Andrew Mason, who executive produced The Matrix trilogy, while Andrew Ooi of 852 Films (Pang Ho Cheung's Dream Home), Harriet Spalding, Sukee Chew and Robert Lundberg will executive produce. Full Throttle is set to go into production in early 2016.