• Elevate Artist Management’s Paris-based talent agent Florent Lamy is announced a new studio effort to kickoff an ambitious Marvel-style operation to adapt long forgotten French comic book superheroes, including ’L’Archer Blanc’ (The White Archer), and Jean-Yves Mitton’s Mirkos saga and spin-offs therein, to name a few. The adaptations will be for televsion and film in French and English. (Screendaily)
• Daniel Zirilli’s new Shogun Films revenge thriller, Renegades, has landed multiple territories through sales agent Bleiberg/Dimbort with Saban picking up for North America. The film stars Nick Moran, Lee Majors and Danny Trejo and “follows a band of former Special Forces comrades who seek to avenge the death of their Green Beret friend after he is murdered by a London drug gang that has been threatening his daughter.” Shogun’s Jonathan Sothcott has also announced a sequel with Zirilli also developing Crossfire. (Screendaily)
• Rivulet Films has acquired Acolyte, a new script by Derek Kolstad (John Wick franchise) which “follows Robert Miller (aka Acolyte) who returns home to find his home ransacked and his wife Helen missing, along with top secret files from her harrowing NGO work in Syria. He moves with an intense skill and determination that belies his everyman appearance, assembling his highly classified and long-disbanded team Athena, Helios, Talos, Hades, Cerberus, Icarus and Hermes to execute a most lethal operation: rescuing Helen and bringing hell to her captors and their corrupt political allies.” Rivulet Films and Ascot Elite are producing and fast tracking the pic. (Deadline)
• Paul Greengrass will direct from his own script The Hood, starring Benedict Cumberbatch in a period action drama akin to Braveheart and Gladiator about a farmer who becomes a leader of a peasant revolt in England. CAA Media Finance and FilmNation are repping sales at the Cannes market. (Deadline)
• Cameras are set to roll in India this December for In The Ring, “a psychological thriller about Shama, a 17-year-old boxer who exchanges places with her double to fight in the national championship when she is framed in her aunt’s murder.” Mithila Palkar, Jaaved Jaaferi and Siam Ahmed will star alongside legendary boxer and trailblazing coach Razia Shabnam for the Hindi-language thriller, to be directed by Burqua Boxers documentary director, Alka Raghuram. (Variety)