Wayne Collins, a young singer/songwriter (Rob Mayes), was a heartbeat away from making it in Nashville when a car crash ended his dream. Now, seven years later, he’s a working man in Columbus, Georgia, trying to make ends meet. During a cable installation, he meets Claude Allen, a drunken has-been country music legend (Beau Bridges), who hands him a guitar and listens to one of Wayne’s original songs. Together, they return to Nashville, hoping they can shop the song and score a record deal. But the industry has changed, and no one is willing to take a chance on Claude. Not one to give up, Wayne outsmarts the system.
The Neon Highway Features Original Music By Grammy®, CMA, And ACM Nominated and Award-Winning Recording Artists: Lee Brice, Dallas Davidson And Grace Asbury Including New Song Penned By Davidson And Performed By Brice
Release Date: March 15, 2024 in select theaters
Cast: Beau Bridges as ‘Claude Allen’, Rob Mayes as ‘Wayne
Collins’, Sam Hennings as ‘Ray’, TJ Power as ‘Lloyd Collins’, Lee Brice as ‘Lamont Johnson’, Pam Tillis as Herself, Jennifer Bowles as ‘Ginny Collins’, Sandra Lee-Oain Thomas as ‘Pepper Dewberry’, Wilbur T. Fitzgerald as ‘Buck Bates’, Brett Gentile as ‘Elton’, and Ezekiel Bridges as ‘Bob’
Directed By: William Wages
Produced By: Stratton Leopold & Lori Berlanga
Executive Producers: William Wages, Phillip Rob Bellury & Craig Miller
Rob Mayes is an award-winning actor and country artist best known for his roles in, JOHN DIES AT THE END, THE DESPERATE RIDERS, A SOLDIER’S REVENGE, 5000 BLANKETS, JUST JAKE. As an ACM, CMA and AIMP Nashville country artist, Rob Mayes boasts 8 million career streams & over 14,500 Shazams.
Beau Bridges has been nominated 15 times for an Emmy Award. Beau received a Best Supporting Actor Emmy Award for “The Second Civil War,” he won an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for his supporting role in “The Positively True Adventures of The Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom,” and he won Best Actor Awards at the Emmys, the Golden Globes, and the Cable Ace for “Without Warning: The James Brady Story.” Beau can be seen in “Lessons in Chemistry,” “Dreamin’ Wild,” “Masters of Sex,” “Black-ish,” “Bloodline,” “Robbie,” “Mosaic,” “Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero,” “The Millers,” “How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying,” “The Descendants,” and “An Inconvenient Truth.”
William Wages has directed and shot documentaries, commercials, television series, and second units on feature films. He has worked as a cinematographer on more than 80 feature films and television movies, including “The Forgiven,” “Down in the Delta,”“Into the West,” and “Yellowstone.” He has been nominated for two national Emmys and eight ASC Awards, (American Society of Cinematographer), winning two. He was also honored with the ASC Lifetime Achievement Award.
Stratton Leopold began his long standing career in filmmaking as an actor, casting director, assistant director, location manager and production manager. His credits include producer, co-producer, supervising producer, and executive producer on major feature films, such as “Mission impossible 3,” “The Sum of All Fears,” “The General’s Daughter,” “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen,” “The Rose and the Jackal,” “The Big One,” “Blood In, Blood Out,” and “Born Yesterday.” He also served as an executive vice president at Paramount Studios.