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News Briefs: A24 Tackles MMA Biopic, White Returns In TROUBLE MAN, Kodansha’s ORIGIN Brewing, NORYANG This Friday, And More!
• Following news broken in 2019, Dwayne Johnson will play Mark Kerr, confirming a new biopic based on the no holds barred era of the UFC fighter’s career. The film will be directed by Uncut Gems helmer Benny Safdie who reunites with A24 for the project. (Deadline)
DEADPOOL 3 Rejoins Reynolds With ‘Free Guy’ And ‘The Adam Project’ Director
Welp…if ain’t broke…
RIDERS OF JUSTICE: Lionsgate, 21 Laps Pair Up For Remake Of Danish Hit Mads Mikkelsen Revenge Thriller
English-language revisits of foreign films can be hit or miss depending on your tastes. Anders Thomas Jensen’s 2020 Mads Mikkelsen headliner, Riders Of Justice, was nothing short of the former, featuring the actor in a riveting revenge tale that now appears to be getting redeveloped over at Lionsgate along with Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps, according to THR‘s Borys Kit.
FREE GUY: Ryan Reynolds Gets The Girl, A New Lease On Life, And A Trailer!
Provided there’s still a movie theater left to safely attend by then, Ryan Reynolds’s new fantasy sci-fi, Free Guy, may finally hit the big screen on December 11 after shelving its summer release. The film is directed by Shawn Levy from a script by Matt Lieberman and Zak Penn.
FREE GUY Is Ready To Play In The First Official Trailer
Seeing as Ryan Reynolds isn’t quite done yet owning 2019 as Netflix readies the release of Michael Bay’s 6 Underground, he’s got the platform this weekend over at Fox with director Shawn Levy setting up this summer’s action comedy adventure, Free Guy with the first trailer.
Korean Action Drama, A BITTERSWEET LIFE, Is Getting A Remake With Michael B. Jordan Starring
Director Kim Jee-Woon’s 2005 action drama, A Bittersweet Life, certainly lended one of the most brutal and memorable titles Korean cinema had to offer near the start of the millenium with actor Lee Byung-Hun front and center. Fast forward to present day where Twentieth Century Fox is poised to advance a remake effort with the promise of actor Michael B. Jordan leading the cast.
Jennifer Yuh, Nelson (Kung Fu Panda 2, Kung Fu Panda 3) is being tapped to direct the remake with the goal of steering it as potential franchise starter with Jordan playing a high-level mob enforcer who becomes romantically embroiled in a deadly cover-up with his boss’s young mistress. 21 Laps’s own Shawn Levy, Dan Levine and Dan Cohen are producing in association with CJ Entertainment with Jason Young overseeing for Fox.
Jordan is next slated to appear in the February 16, 2018 release of Creed helmer Ryan Coogler’s Marvel adaptation, Black Panther, opposite lead star Chadwick Boseman. (Deadline)
STARMAN To Be Remade By Shawn Levy For Columbia
80’s sci-fi revivals are back in the headlines with word from THR that director John Carpenter’s 1984 film, Starman, is up for a remake over at Columbia Pictures. Stand By Me scribes Bruce A. Evans and Raynold Gideon wrote the original film which centered on a widow coerced into helping a fugitive alien look-a-like of her deceased husband, with a three-day cross-country drive to the Barringer Crater in order to save his life.
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