Actor Xavier Samuel of Twilight fame (who played Riley) has joined the upcoming 70’s surfer action flick ‘Drift’.  The twenty -eight year old Aussie performer, who is somewhat of a new comer to the biz, joins Sam Worthington and a rumored Myles Pollard.  The Australian action drama, from Benn Notts and Morgan O’Neill, tells the true tale of Jimmy and Andy Fisher, two brothers, and wave chasers, who attempt together to reinvent themselves as business owners.

Along the way they get caught back up in a life of crime, with a resident drug dealer a threat to their livelihood.   Xavier is said to be portraying one of the brothers, with Myles Pollard the other, while Worthington is set to play a film maker, and friend of the Fishers.  Drift is set begin filming on location in Australia this August with an estimated date of arrival in theaters next summer.  With only a few main stream surf movies around, Drift should be cool to see.  Could it be the next Point Break?  Check out the lengthy synopsis below and tell us what you think?

“Australia, 1970s. The Fisher brothers, Andy (28) and Jimmy (22), have one great passion: riding big waves. As kids, their mother escaped from Sydney to Margaret River, a sleepy coastal town with some of the world’s most challenging and dangerous waves. For the next 12 years, the boys perfected their surfing skills, always searching for the perfect ride. Free-spirited Jimmy is a gifted surfer and innovator but he starts to slip toward a life of crime to help the family out of debt. Andy makes a big decision. Quitting a stable job, he bets on Jimmy’s surf inventions and his own business skills and launches a backyard surf gear business. They rethink board design, craft homemade wetsuits and sell their merchandise out of their van.

Encouraged by their new friends, traveling bohemian surf photographer and filmmaker JB (Worthington) and his gorgeous Hawaiian surfer companion, Lani, who stirs the two brothers’ hearts, they start to seek ways to expand. After they get mixed up with a local drug dealer, it looks like everything they built up, will be ruined…”