The biker horror-thriller hits nationwide platforms the identical evening, including one other credit score to a yr that’s already included a buzzy quick 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, yet another piece of a 2026 that’s saved 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 the best way to entry it. Patten took performing lessons particularly to play the lead function 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 mentioned the thought grew out of a good friend’s actual expertise. “A good friend that had misplaced his job realized that previously, he was gifted crypto, and he truly went on this journey to attempt to get better it,” Patten defined. The quick’s reception was sturdy sufficient that TBK Productions is now growing it right into a tv collection exploring the broader Bitcoin neighborhood.
From performing alongside Grenier to a different movie within the director’s chair
With “The Iron Door,” a low-budget indie Patten truly made just a few 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 received to have such a ardour for every of these initiatives that you just simply can’t give up,” Patten has mentioned 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 function in a Bitcoin thriller and directing a characteristic constructed round desert folklore.
Constructing a slate at TBK Productions
Patten based TBK Productions, and the corporate has been busy effectively 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 Lifeless as seen via 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” provides audiences a wider launch than the competition circuit the place the movie constructed its early buzz. It’s the newest addition to a busy yr for Patten, who’s saved constructing his slate at TBK Productions whereas persevering with to work in entrance of the digital camera.
