GUNNER: ‘Kickboxer’ Reboot Director Casts Luke Hemsworth To Star
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HBO series Westworld may be over but actor Luke Hemsworth is still going strong as he’s now poised to take on the lead role in action thriller, Gunner, as Deadline’s Matt Grobar noted on Monday. What’s more though is it will have Dimitri Logothetis directing from a script by Gary Scott Thompson, last reported to be priming a series turn for the Kickboxer franchise as of late last year.
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The film written by The Fast and the Furious scribe Gary Scott Thompson follows Special forces veteran Lee Gunner (Hemsworth) as he takes his two boys on a camping trip where the boys stumble upon a fentanyl lab and are kidnapped by drug runners. Unfortunately for the drug runners, Lee will stop at nothing to get his boys back safely, going up against not only the criminal cartel, but the FBI and local police as well, using the full force of his deadly abilities to reunite his family.
Joel Shapiro will produce alongside Logothetis, magiCity Studios and Acme Rocket Fuel, according to the report.
Read more at Deadline.
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