Dominic Monaghan set for Fortuna

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Just in time for the next depression, Dominic Monaghan and Freddy Rodriguez will star in a horror thriller offering one potential solution to our economic problems.

Set in 2100, "Fortuna" envisions an Earth where a collapsed economy and climate crises have eliminated the middle class, leaving a few very wealthy and the teeming masses in severe poverty. To give hope and avoid revolt, the elite create Fortuna, a mysterious game where one in a thousand wins a big payday and joins the upper classes. But their hidden goal to "reduce poverty" by 30% over 50 years comes with a deadly price tag.

Monaghan, Rodriguez and "Fortuna" writer-director Barthelemy Grossmann will play desperate men who play the game in a nearby tower, despite apprehensions that none of its contestants are ever seen again. The privately financed film begins a six-week shoot in Bulgaria next month.

Monaghan is best known for his roles in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy and ABC's "Lost." Former "Six Feet Under" star Rodriguez will next be seen in the December 12 release "Nothing Like the Holidays."

Source: Reuters