THE BLACKSMITH Casts Up With Fishburne And Jonas For The New Graphic Novel Adaptation
District B13, Taken and Peppermint director Pierre Morel’s The Blacksmith has an official cast as of Tuesday with Lawrence Fishburne and Nick Jonas set to star. The article at Variety also touts a “soon be announcing an equally outstanding young female actor to play across from Nick” which should further give way to franchise potential. Ben Ripley is adapting the script from the 2011 Kickstart Comics publication that was written by Richard Sparkman and Malik Evans, and illustrated by Alberto Muriel. The AGC Studios-produced and financed feature slightly retools its incarnation of the comic, renaming our protagonist on Wes Loomis (Jonas), a high-tech weapons expert for the spy community who is rendered fugitive and on the run when his secret lab is decimated and his colleagues are murdered. As Variety’s report on Tuesday elucidates: “Resorting to his unique skills set to keep him alive, and the aid of a brilliant, […]
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