Kevin and Michael Goetz’s ‘Scenic Route’ Trailer

Here’s the new trailer for Kevin and Michael Goetz‘s thriller Scenic Route, which stars Josh Duhamel and Dan Fogler as two buddies who become stranded in the desert and have their relationship slowly devolve into violence.  The film originally premiered at SXSW and was recently picked up by Vertical Entertainment after screening at Cannes 2013.

Scenic Route is set to hit theaters August 23rd, hit the jump for the full synopsis and trailer via Deadline.

Mitchell (Josh Duhamel) and Carter (Dan Fogler), life-long friends who have drifted apart, are on a road trip when their old pickup breaks down, leaving them stranded on an isolated desert road. Nobody can pick apart a man like his best friend, and as the relentless elements of the desert grind them down, they start to attack each other’s life decisions with unwavering brutality. As they question who they are and who they could have been, their agitation leads to physical confrontation and ultimately knife-wielding madness, and what begins as an inconvenience becomes a very real life or death struggle.