The biker horror-thriller hits nationwide platforms the identical evening, including one other credit score to a 12 months that’s already included a buzzy brief movie alongside Adrien Grenier.
“The Iron Door” has its world premiere on the TCL Chinese language Theatre on September 17, releasing concurrently throughout Amazon, Fandango, Google Play, YouTube, cable VOD and residential video. The movie provides a directing credit score to Garrett Patten’s résumé, another piece of a 2026 that’s stored him busy on either side of the digital camera.
A brief movie that turned heads
Earlier than “The Iron Door” launch, Patten co-directed and starred in “Self Custody,” a 31-minute thriller centered on a financially struggling father who discovers he’s sitting on a forgotten Bitcoin fortune, if he can keep in mind how you can entry it. Patten took appearing lessons particularly to play the lead position of Scott, and he shared the display with “Entourage” alum Adrien Grenier, two-time UFC champion Henry Cejudo, and Odette Annable.
Shot in Austin, “Self Custody” premiered on the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Mueller throughout SXSW and is now streaming on Prime Video, Tubi and Plex. Patten has stated the thought grew out of a buddy’s actual expertise. “A buddy that had misplaced his job discovered that previously, he was gifted crypto, and he truly went on this journey to attempt to get better it,” Patten defined. The brief’s reception was sturdy sufficient that TBK Productions is now growing it right into a tv collection exploring the broader Bitcoin group.
From appearing alongside Grenier to a different movie within the director’s chair
With “The Iron Door,” a low-budget indie Patten truly made a number of years again, he steps behind the digital camera as director. The movie pulls from an actual desert legend in California’s Yucca Valley, tied to gold miner Johnny Lang and tales which have circulated within the area for a century.
“You’ve obtained to have such a ardour for every of these initiatives that you just simply can’t stop,” Patten has stated of what it takes to make it as an unbiased filmmaker, a philosophy that tracks with a résumé that’s grown to incorporate a supporting position in a Bitcoin thriller and directing a function constructed round desert folklore.
Constructing a slate at TBK Productions
Patten based TBK Productions, and the corporate has been busy nicely past “The Iron Door.” Its slate contains “Within the Hand of Dante,” and “Household Film,” together with the in-development “Self Custody” collection. Patten has additionally teased two upcoming initiatives: a story centered on The Grateful Useless as seen by way of the eyes of kids, and a biopic centered on Mike Tyson.
Touchdown on the TCL Chinese language Theatre and each main streaming and VOD platform concurrently, “The Iron Door” offers audiences a wider launch than the competition circuit the place the movie constructed its early buzz. It’s the most recent addition to a busy 12 months for Patten, who’s stored constructing his slate at TBK Productions whereas persevering with to work in entrance of the digital camera.
