Projectionist To Producer: Wyoming Man Brings Cold War To Screen In ‘Reykjavik'

Wyoming has long been in the bullseye of potential nuclear conflicts as home to F.E. Warren Air Force Base and the 90th Missile Wing.

Now as Hollywood takes on a hypothetical nuclear attack on Chicago in the hit film “House of Dynamite,” another nuclear-themed film — "Reykjavik” — waits in the wings for a release sometime next year.

Behind this Michael Russell Gunn-directed feature are a pair of producers with Wyoming ties: Carl Beyer, who grew up in Powell; and John Logan Pierson, who has a connection to Jackson.

The two Wyoming guys have taken different routes to Hollywood success, and now regularly work together.

For Beyer, his path began at age 13 in a Powell movie theater threading film through projectors.

“Valley Cinemas. There were three of them,” Beyer told Cowboy State Daily