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Joel Silver (born July 14, 1952) is an American film producer, known for action films like Lethal Weapon and Die Hard. He is owner of Silver Pictures and co-founder of Dark Castle Entertainment. He began his career at Lawrence Gordon Productions, where he eventually became president of motion pictures for the company. He earned his first screen credit as the associate producer on The Warriors and, with Gordon, produced 48 Hrs.,Streets of Fire and Brewster's Millions. In 1985, he formed Silver Pictures and produced successful action films such as Commando (1985), the Lethal Weapon franchise, the first two films of the Die Hard series and the The Matrix franchise of action films. He appears on-screen at the beginning of Who Framed Roger Rabbit as Raoul J. Raoul, the director of the animated short Something's Cookin. He directed "Split Personality", (1992), an episode of the HBO horror anthology, Tales from the Crypt. He currently runs two production companies, Silver Pictures and Dark Castle Entertainment co-owned by Robert Zemeckis. Along with Jared Kass, Silver was co-creator of the sport of Ultimate.
Country Boys is the story of an up-and-coming singer named Richie Bashton, who's trying to make it big in the country scene. To do this, Richie's manager Bruce Wolnik signs him up to famous music company 'Rocky Mountain Records'. The one problem? Richie's gay, and wants to make music about his experience as a gay man living in the south, and generally provide allyship to the LGBT+ community overall. And the owner of Rocky Mountain Records, Pappy Stevenson, is only really interested in making shallow bro country, so now Richie has to find a way out of the contract Bruce signed him up for. What makes it worse is that his ex, who after some soul searching found out she's really a woman on the inside, is also signed to that record and while the breakup was mutual and amiable, there's still some awkwardness there. AND on top of that his adoptive daughter is dating Pappy's daughter.
