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Action Thriller, FAST, Circles ‘Warrior’, ‘The Accountant’ Director

Gavin O’Connor’s 2016 action drama, The Accountant, was a homerun in 2016 which grew into sequel development the following summer. As of late, O’Connor and actor Ben Affleck are well on the way with sports drama, Torrance, hopefully this year while sequel business on the former remain pending with updates. In the meantime, Variety‘s own Justin Kroll has it on good terms that the director of the hit 2011 MMA drama, Warrior, is in negotiations to sit in and direct Fast at Warner Bros. According to Kroll, the film would have followed-up Sicario 1 and 2 scribe Taylor Sheridan’s credentials as director after Vile (2011), the hit neo-Western murder mystery, Wind River (2017), and Paramount Network series, Yellowstone. Sheridan penned the script and actor Chris Pratt was attached a few weeks ago, but a deal with Sheridan couldn’t be finalized which now also leaves casting in limbo. Fast centers on […]

FAST: Taylor Sheridan Taps Chris Pratt To Star

Lee B. Golden III

There are no setbacks for actor Chris Pratt who is now in discussions to star in Taylor Sheridan’s next venture according to Variety on Wednesday evening. Under the working title, Fast, the project centers on a special forces commando tapped by the DEA to lead a black-ops unit targeting drug dealers protected by the CIA. The move would be especially pivotal for Pratt following the fallout over the recently-shelved Guardians Of The Galaxy: Vol. 3 in what would have been the actor’s fourth Star-Lord reprisal in Disney’s MCU. Sheridan work continues to be celebrated stemming from screenwriting duties on 2016 crime opus, Sicario, and his riveting must-see 2017 directorial feature, Wind River. Sheridan is set to direct the tentatively titled Fast from his own script with David Heyman producing.