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PROJECT LEGION In The Works From ‘Boy Kills World’ Studio

Adventure thriller tentatively titled Project Legion is next in line from Nthibah Pictures, the U.S./South Africa-based independent film studio behind Moritz Mohr’s Boy Kills World. The film marks the first fully-funded and produced feature in a new deal announced on Tuesday by Nthibah Chairman Wayne Fitzjohn, whose Talent10 Holdings affirmed a $50 million investment to expand Nthibah’s content slate. Billed as the first in a franchise, Project Legion is a modern-day adventure centering on the unlikely rise of Zach, a dreamer turned prize-fighter forced to navigate his realities in more realms than he ever imagined. Fitzjohn, who is also founder and CEO of Talent10, is penning the script alongside award-winning South African filmmaker Jozua Malherbe (BBC Studio’s “Devil’s Peak”) who will also direct. The project also reunites the pair with Simon Swart (I Can Only Imagine, Boy Kills World) following director Donovan Marsh’s 2021 Netflix mystery thriller, I Am All […]

BOY KILLS WORLD Narrates Bill Skarsgård’s Three-Step Plan For Boyhood Vengeance In The Official Trailer

Lee B. Golden III

I’m kind of hoping Deadpool 2‘s Zeitgeist gets an appearance in Shawn Levy’s Deadpool & Wolverine. Beyond that, 2024 is a good year to be Bill Skarsgård. With The Crow and Robert Eggers’s Nosferatu on deck, it’ll be a sweet, salacious tale of vengeance as teased in the newest official trailer for director Moritz Mohr’s Boy Kills World. Written by Tyler Burton Smith and Arend Remmers, the film also stars Jessica Rothe, Michelle Dockery, Isaiah Mustafa, Yayan Ruhian, Andrew Koji, Famke Jansen, and Sharlton Copley, and is produced by Sam Raimi and Roy Lee. Skarsgård stars as “Boy” who avows revenge after his family is murdered by Hilda Van Der Koy (Janssen), the deranged matriarch of a corrupt post-apocalyptic dynasty that left the boy orphaned, deaf and voiceless. Driven by his inner voice, one which he co-opted from his favorite childhood video game, Boy trains with a mysterious shaman (Ruhian) […]

BOY KILLS WORLD: Bill Skarsgård Knuckles Up In First Look From Moritz Mohr’s Action Thriller Debut

Lee B. Golden III

L.A. based Capstone Global is joining forces with Wayne Fitzjohn and Simone Swart’s Nthibah Pictures, Alex Lebovici’s Hammerstone Studios, Sam Raimi’s Raimi Productions, Roy Lee’s Vertigo Entertainment, Stuart Manashil and Dan Kagan for the sales launch of Boy Kills World starring Bill Skarsgård (Clark, Atomic Blonde) who can now be seen in the official first look still above. In Boy Kills World, Skarsgård stars in the role of Boy, a deaf mute with a vibrant imagination. When his family is murdered, he is trained by a mysterious shaman to repress his childish imagination and become an instrument of death. The film is is billed as “a dystopian fever dream action film” with Skarsgård making headlines for his latest lead role in fitting, buffed up form as he readies for another major thriller in Rupert Sanders’ iteration of The Crow which is being repped at the Cannes market by Filmnation. Mortiz Mohr is directing […]

BOY KILLS WORLD: Capstone Boards Int’l Sales For ‘Dystopian Fever Dream Action Film’ Starring Bill Skarsgård

Lee B. Golden III

LA-based Capstone Global is now the official home of international sales for Mortiz Mohr’s feature directing debut, Boy Kills World. The move partners the company with Nthibah Pictures, Hammerstone Studios, Raimi Productions and Vertigo Entertainment, with Capstone co-repping U.S. rights with CAA. Actor Bill Skarsgård, who is also set to star in a new reimagining of The Crow, stars in the film which is described as “a dystopian fever dream action film”; Skarsgård plays Boy, a deaf mute with a vibrant imagination. When his family is murdered, he is trained by a mysterious shaman to repress his childish imagination and become an instrument of death. Rounding out the cast are Jessica Rothe (Happy Death Day), Michelle Dockery, Brett Gelman (“Stranger Things,” “Fleabag”), Isaiah Mustafa (It Chapter 2), martial arts master Yayan Ruhian (The Raid 1 & 2, John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum, Wira), Nicholas and Cameron Crovetti (“Big Little Lies,” […]

BOY KILLS WORLD: Bill Skarsgård Toplines SA Shoot For Dystopian Actioner With Samara Weaving and Yayan Ruhian

Lee B. Golden III

Bill Skarsgård is set to lead Boy Kills World from debut director Moritz Mohr. Arend Remmers (Sløborn) and Tyler Burton Smith (Kung Fury: The Movie) penned the script which also brings actress Samara Weaving, and international action star Yayan Ruhian. Bill Skarsgard (Deadpool 2, It Chapter Two) will lead the cast as protagonist Boy, a deaf mute with a vibrant imagination. When his family is murdered, he escapes to the jungle and is trained by a mysterious shaman to repress his childish imagination and become an instrument of death. Also attached are Samara Weaving (Ready or Not, Bill and Ted Face the Music), who will play assassin June 27, and martial arts expert Yayan Ruhian (Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens, The Raid: Redemption), who will be Boy’s mentor. Tom Grater’s Deadline exclusive on Thursday bills the film as a “dystopian fever dream” which will be shot in South Africa. Mohr’s own […]