News Briefs: ASSASSIN & SON Adaptation; Foxx & De Niro in TIN SOLDIER; Keaton To Helm And Star In KNOX GOES AWAY; PIRATES OF THE CARRIBEAN Confirms Circling ‘Suicide Squad’ Star
• I don’t know how this got past my radar, but the word is State Street Pictures has optioned independent comic, Assassin & Son, for a film adaptation – about an assassin forced back into the violent world he left when his wife gets brutally murdered in front of him and his young son. Scout Comics & Entertainment are producing the pic based on the comic created by ex-wrestlers Marc Copani and the late Shad Gaspard, who tragically passed away after getting caught in a riptide while saving his son in May of 2020. (Deadline) • Jamie Foxx will star in Tin Soldier, a new revenge actioner that sees a military operative recruit a soldier with a vulnerable past to infiltrate an impenetrable cult of soldiers and veterans led by an enigmatic leader known as “The Bokushi”. Robert De Niro, Scott Eastwood and John Leguizamo will also star with shooting […]