EXCLUSIVE: Black Bear is underway within the UK and Eire on their untitled Jason Statham action-thriller, which is confirmed in the present day as being directed by Ric Roman Waugh (Greenland).
Becoming a member of Statham are newcomer Bodhi Rae Breathnach (upcoming Hamnet), Oscar nominee Invoice Nighy (Residing), BAFTA winner Naomi Ackie (Blink Twice), and BAFTA nominee Daniel Mays (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story).
Primarily based on a script by Ward Parry with revisions by Christian Contreras and Parry, we broke information of the mission again in Cannes the place Black Bear launched it to the market, co-representing the U.S. rights with Vary Choose. Baltasar Kormakur was beforehand hooked up to direct however needed to exit. Black Bear will proceed gross sales on the EFM.
Producers on the image embrace Statham (The Beekeeper) for Punch Palace Productions, John Friedberg (The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare) for Black Bear, Brendon Boyea (Kandahar) for Cinemachine, and Jon Berg (Surprise Lady) and former WB exec Greg Silverman for Stampede Ventures. Teddy Schwarzman and Michael Heimler will function govt producers for Black Bear.
Statham, who within the movie will play a person pulled again in the direction of the ghosts of his violent previous, is presently reteaming with David Ayer on action-thriller A Working Man, and not too long ago wrapped manufacturing on Mutiny with Jean-Francois Richet for Mad River.
Rising younger actress Bodhi Rae Breathnach starred within the BBC collection The Seize and So Awkward Academy and her first movie function might be reverse Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley in Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet, produced by Steven Spielberg and Sam Mendes.
Waugh’s catastrophe movie Greenland, starring Gerard Butler, cemented Waugh as a go-to for motion fare, and he not too long ago wrapped the sequel, Greenland: Migration.
Waugh is represented by Vary Media Companions and Johnson Shapiro. Breathnach is repped by The Artists Partnership. Nighy is repped by Unbiased Expertise Group, UTA, and Jackoway Austen. Ackie is represented by CAA, Hamilton Hodell, Vary Media Companions, and Peikoff Mahan Regulation Workplace. Mays is repped by Curtis Brown Group, UTA, and Goodman Genow. Statham is represented by Patrick Knapp.
