Two years after it was acquired by Briarcliff Entertainment for North American distribution, Sovereign is premiering July 11.
In the trailer for writer/director Christian Swegal‘s true crime thriller, Nick Offerman and Jacob Tremblay star as Jerry Kane and his teenage son Joseph, who follow the Sovereign Citizen belief system, a deeply anti-establishment worldview rooted in distrust of government authority.
As the pair travels across the country, delivering self-taught legal seminars and pushing back against systems they believe have failed them, their journey brings them into conflict with Police Chief Jim Bouchart (Dennis Quaid), setting off a tragic chain of events that forces a reckoning with power, principle and the limits of freedom.
“When I first heard about this crime, I was immediately hooked,” said Swegal before filming the movie in Arkansas in late 2023. “Radicalization is a familiar concept, but at a time when our democracy is strained to the breaking point, and conspiracy-driven domestic terrorism is emerging as a real threat, the topic is more relevant than ever.”
Premiering in theaters and available to rent or own on July 11, Sovereign is produced by Nick Moceri, with executive producers Tom Ortenberg, Jessica Rose, Matthew Shreder, Grant Mohrman, Colin Bates, William Ramsey, Kerri Elder, Blake Elder, Ronnie Exley, Jeremy Ross, Sean Krajewski, Oli Strong, Danielle Goodman Strong, Adam Wyatt Tate, Danielle Mandel, Adam Anders, Justin Greenfield, Marco Kyris, Bennett Litwin, Matthew Marquis, Adam Ropp and Richard Weiner.
