Re:Uniting Director Laura Adkin & Author Catherine McKenzie to Collaborate on Out Of Luck - A First Time Script by the Best Selling Author
Vancouver, BC— Vancouver production company Flat/Head Films has acquired the rights to Catherine McKenzie's original script Out of Luck. The feature film will be directed by Laura Adkin and produced by Adkin and Krista Rand. Catherine Mack is the pseudonym for USA Today Bestselling author Catherine McKenzie. She is the author of twenty novels, including suspense, thrillers, and rom-coms. She is known for her bestselling series The Vacation Mysteries. Out of Luck will be her first script turned into a feature film.
Determined to make their own luck, a group of defiant women plot revenge on the man who wronged them by pulling off an audacious heist of his Irish bars on St. Patrick's Day.
“I am thrilled to be partnering with Laura and Krista on this film. With Out of Luck, I'm looking to bring the same sensibility that has made me a long-standing success as a novelist to Canadian filmmaking,” says McKenzie. “The development of the Canadian commercial book market demonstrates to me that the Canadian public is hungry for home-grown commercial film projects, especially given the current political climate.”
“When Catherine came to me with this idea, I jumped at the opportunity to work with her on it,” says Adkin. “Out of Luck is a high-stakes, suspenseful, female-driven heist movie with a unique Canadian flair.”
McKenzie has published twenty novels and is approaching 2 million books sold worldwide, making her one of Canada’s leading commercial fiction writers. Her novels have been shortlisted for the Hugh McLennan Prize for Fiction, the Canadian Crime Writers’ Award, and the Goodreads’ Choice Awards, among others. The next book in her Vacation Mysteries series will be released on April 28th, 2026.
Adkin and Rand will be taking the film to Cannes, where they will further develop and shop the script through the Film Market Access Program. Founded by film programmer Kirk Cooper, Film Market Access has successfully brought emerging talents to the Festival de Cannes, as well as Marché du Film. The program provides a unique opportunity to gain firsthand experience in the highly competitive business of marketing and selling films.
Out of Luck will shoot in Budapest with scouting already underway. The film is a co-production with Hungarian company Scripted Productions and Canada’s Flat/Head Films. The film will be written by Catherine McKenzie, directed by Laura Adkin (Re:Uniting), produced by Krista Rand (Grand Unified Theory, Re: Uniting), co-produced by Julia Molnar and Tamás McGillivray, and shot by Adkin’s longtime cinematographer Stirling Bancroft (Freaks, Final Destination Bloodlines).
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