AFM 2018: Dev Patel To Debut Direct His Next Starring Actioner, MONKEY MAN
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BRUISED: Halle Berry To Replace Previous Star And Director For The New MMA Drama
Oscar-winning actrees Halle Berry (Monster’s Ball, Kidnap) is making 2019 her banner year with the March production of MMA drama, Bruised. Berry will star as well as make her directorial debut according to an exclusive by Amanda N’Duka at Deadline on Tuesday.
John Wick Spin-Off Series, THE CONTINENTAL, Lands At Starz; Keanu Reeves To Executive Produce
“This series is truly unlike anything else on TV,” Starz CEO Chris Albrecht said. “The Continental promises to include the thunderous fight sequences and intensely staged shootouts between professional assassins and their targets that fans have come to expect in the John Wick movie franchise as well as introducing some new, darkly compelling characters who inhabit this underground world.”
KILL OR BE KILLED: ‘John Wick’ Team To Tackle Image Comics Adaptation
Stahelski is reteaming with John Wick franchise producer Basil Iwanyk who will produce Kill Or Be Killed with Erica Lee at Thunder Road along with mother! producer Jeff Waxman from a script by Kin scribe Dan Casey. Brubaker, best known for manifesting The Winter Soldier for the “Captain America” comic series inspiring its current screen iteration for the MCU, will executive produce.
Lionsgate To Expand ‘John Wick’ Universe With BALLERINA
If you think Lionsgate is done blowing your collective minds into the stratosphere and beyond with all things John Wick, you couldn’t be more wrong. Point in fact, with a comic book and a television series spin-off brewing, it turns out that the studio is ready to make the world of the titular assasin a whole lot bigger.
The word now is Ballerina – such is the title of the script acquired by Lionsgate in a bidding war against other studios last week. The project is described as a tonal nod to Luc Besson’s 1990s action movie fervor with La Femme Nikita, but with a more pulpy, hyper-stylized treatment akin to the work of Quentin Tarantino or Matthew Vaughn.
Story details haven’t been made public, save for the plot generally centered on a young woman raised as an assassin and subsequently sets out to murder her family’s equally trained killers. The sale of the script is a milestone success for fledgling screenwriter, 23-year old Shay Hatten, a Loyola Marymount’s School of Film and Television 2016 graduate who snagged an internship at Team Downey where he worked his way up the ladder while setting aside time to birth his Stephen King-inspired black comedy Black List script, Maximum King!, as well as Ballerina.
Thunder Road’s Basil Iwaynk is producing the film for which a director is yet to be named. Keanu’s expected return to the title role of the stoic ex-hitman and target of The Continental’s deadliest killers is now in the works with the involvement of John Wick and John Wick: Chapter Two co-helmer/helmer, Chad Stahelski, and screenwriter Derek Kolstad. (THR)
SMOKE ON THE WATER Action Franchise In Development At Thunder Road
The angle for the project is to launch a new action franchise centering on what has now become a high-tech world of drug trafficking off the Florida coast–with an emphasis on the cinematically untapped world of Cuba, which presents fascinating new possibilities in light of the softening of the U.S.’s embargo policies.
Live-Action SPLINTER CELL Moves Forward With A Producer On Board
With all the video game news and online chatter coming out of the happenings of today’s Ubisoft E3 Press Conference, it would make sense to share today’s latest headline regarding the Splinter Cell feature-length film. According to Deadline, Hollywood producer Basil Iwaynk is officially on board to produce the live action film with New Regency and Ubisoft Motion Pictures, the latter who is also currently pushing forward the live-action Assassin’s Creed movie with actor Michael Fassbender for a May 22, 2015 release.
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