Patrick Wachsberger and Legendary’s JV 193 will launch gross sales on the Cannes market on motion movie The Surgeon, which is able to star Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh and be produced by John Wick outfit Thunder Highway.
Pic is written and directed by Roshan Sethi, a doctor, Indie Spirit winner, and co-creator of hit Fox sequence The Resident.
The movie will observe a retired surgeon (Yeoh) who’s kidnapped and compelled to function on a thriller affected person. Although enormously outnumbered, her captors have neglected her best weapon: 35-years of surgical expertise, resulting in an explosive and brutal confrontation throughout which she outwits and cuts down her enemies in a visible type that defies something you might have seen earlier than. There are hopes it could possibly change into a franchise.
Iwanyk and Erica Lee are producing for Thunder Highway alongside John Schoenfelder and Russell Ackerman for Neotext, Adam Kolbrenner for Lit Leisure, and Steve Klinsky for Untravelled Worlds. Govt producing are Lit Leisure’s Patrick White and Jay Schuminsky.
The film continues the collaboration between Wachsberger and producer Iwanyk after they beforehand labored collectively on the John Wick franchise, which Iwanyk produced and Wachsberger distributed as Chairman of Lionsgate Movement Image Group.
Sethi received a Movie Unbiased Spirit Award in 2021 for his debut characteristic, 7 Days. A radiation oncologist-turned-filmmaker, he first leveraged his medical expertise on the CBS sequence Code Black, earlier than co-creating The Resident, which ran for six seasons on Fox.
Yeoh received the Oscar, Golden Globe, Movie Unbiased Spirit Award, and Display screen Actors Guild Award for All the things In every single place All At As soon as. She’s additionally well-known for Depraved, Loopy Wealthy Asians, and motion movies together with Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol 2, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and Tomorrow By no means Dies.
“I’m so excited to convey one thing model new and progressive to the motion style primarily based closely on my medical background,” stated writer-director Roshan Sethi. “I can not consider a greater associate than Michelle, the long-lasting queen of motion who can be utilizing her expertise in a special and shocking means on this movie, and the manufacturing groups at Thunder Highway, 193 and NeoText.”
Added Thunder Highway’s Basil Iwanyk: “Roshin wrote an extremely complicated and compelling character that was capable of excite one of many world’s nice actresses in Michelle Yeoh. I can’t wait to see what that collaboration cooks up. And to work once more with Patrick, who was so instrumental in getting the John Wick and Sicario franchises made, is a good thrill for Thunder Highway.”
“Michelle is a cinematic pressure and an ideal match for this function,” commented Wachsberger. “She blends grace and energy, bringing emotional depth to even essentially the most bodily sequences. Together with her main the forged and Roshan drawing on his singular perspective to inform a narrative solely he may, we have a charming franchise coming to life, and we look ahead to bringing it to audiences around the globe.”
