Dave Bautista's STUBER Revs Up For Fox
Actor Dave Bautista’s career progression steers ever further this week, and gladly with a new report on Friday from Deadline per 20th Century Fox’s upcoming action comedy, Stuber. Michael Dowse is directing from a script by Tripper Clancy in which Bautista will play a relentless detective who commandeers an unsuspecting Uber driver named Stu into a harrowing evening of hijinks and mayhem.
Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley who helped cook up development on the project will produce the film with Jake Wagner serving as executive producer and Jeremy Kramer overseeing for Fox. The film comes just as Bautista is about to ring in the new year with a flurry of titles, including Drew Pearce’s sci-fi actioner, Hotel Artemis, the Russos’ Avengers: Infinity War, Steven C. Miller’s Escape Plan: Hades, Scott Mann’s Final Score, Yuen Woo-Ping’s Master Z: Ip Man Legacy, and a tentatively untitled action comedy vehicle from STX initially reported back in October.
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