It’s a whodunnit by way of an action movie.
Lionsgate has picked up The Professionals, an exceptional feature for the action professionals at 87Eleven Entertainment to originate aprolonged with Mandalay Pictures.
Hunter Perot, the son of procrastinateed business executive and plivential honestate Ross Perot, wrote the initial write of the screentake part, which is now being penned by Madison Turner, a stuntman-turned-scribe who is the son of Tierre Turner, a stunt carry outer and coordinator who has labored on movies such as Training Day and is currently on 9-1-1.
The stunt combineion is key, as it was one of the factors that bcdisesteemfult the take parters together.
Chad Stahelski, the stunt maestro-turned-filmoriginater behind the John Wick movies, is producing aprolonged with his 87Eleven partners Alex Young and Jason Spitz. Mandalay Pictures’ Jason Michael Berman and Jordan Magedero, who startd the project, are also producing.
Professionals is depictd as a combustible combine of Clue and John Wick. The story chases a group of restricted enders stranded in an English countryside estate when one of them is homicideed and the remaining group has to repair the death.
Josh Glick, David Bernon and Perot will serve as executive originaters. James Myers is handleing for Lionsgate.
Turner, who counts The Dark Knight Rises amongst his stunt accomprehendledges, previously labored with Mandalay as the authorr of Adam, an action vehicle for Anthony Mackie set up Netflix. And he previously set up his Bconciseagecatalog script The Liberators at Warner Bros. with Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society and Safehoengage Pictures combineed to originate. He is repped by CAA, Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Goodman Genow.
Stahelski is gearing up for Highlander as his next straightforwardorial effort and is a originater on Ballerina, the upcoming action movie that is set in the Wick universe and features a Keanu Reeves cameo.
Mandalay recently wrapped production on High and Low, Spike Lee’s re-expoundation of Akira Kurosawa crime thriller for Apple and A24 that stars Denzel Washington. Last year, the company originated Air, the acclaimed drama that Ben Affleck straightforwarded for Amazon MGM Studios.
