EXCLUSIVE: The film enterprise is on a a lot wanted sizzling streak. How the momentum impacts two plum packages stays to be seen. One in every of them, the function adaptation of the online game adaptation Cut up Fiction, has Depraved helmer Jon M. Chu connected to direct what will probably be one other two-hander with feminine leads. Sydney Sweeney is certainly one of them, and Paul Wernick & Rhett Reese are the writers. They’re the scribes behind Deadpool & Wolverine, the Deadpool and Zombieland movies. Not surprisingly after the smash outcomes of the display screen adaptation of the Minecraft vidgame, bids are excessive and a deal is getting shut. I’ve heard bid numbers within the a number of thousands and thousands from Sony and Amazon MGM, with the latter in sturdy place to take it off the desk, and it’ll possible be settled by early subsequent week.
Extra intriguing is Deeper. I’ve heard that Ana de Armas is poised to affix Tom Cruise on this undersea supernatural movie that Doug Liman will direct. De Armas is the brand new wrinkle right here; they’ve been photographed collectively lately, and I’m instructed they’re doing the diving coaching required for the undertaking.
Deeper follows an astronaut who encounters a terrifying drive whereas on a deep dive right into a never-before-explored trench. Pic has been in growth for nearly a decade, initially set at MGM in April 2016, which purchased a Max Landis spec. I’ve heard Christopher McQuarrie is concerned with the script now. Initially, Bradley Cooper was to star, with Kornél Mundruczó directing; Idris Elba and filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur teamed on a later iteration that likewise failed to maneuver ahead.
This one is pricey, within the $200 million vary most definitely, and it proved too wealthy for Warner Bros blood. However Cruise crushed the Croisette this week with the ultimate installment of Mission: Unattainable The Ultimate Reckoning, a movie anticipated to do $70M or extra on its 5 day opening weekend, hopefully on a blockbuster path. De Armas additionally has momentum, as her John Wick spinoff Ballerina is monitoring at $40 million+. Whereas he, Liman and McQuarrie have plans to shoot a story movie in house with cooperation from NASA and SpaceX, I’m instructed that Cruise wish to make this one subsequent and it’s not a query of if, however the place he decides to make it. No remark from his camp.
Keep tuned.
