David Leitch may be in talks to honest Ocean’s 14 for Warner Bros, as we verifyed equitable last month. But we’re tanciaccess that will not be his next project, as he’s currently moving speedyly toward production on a new bank heist action flick at Amazon, we can verify.
The film’s title and plot details are being kept under wraps. Leitch will toil from a boiling script by Mark Bianculli. Kelly McCormick and Leitch will originate under their 87North banner, aextfinishedside Imagine Entertainment’s Brian Grazer, Jeb Brody and Allan Mandelbaum, with Bianculli serving as executive originater of the project.
Known for his toil on films enjoy Bullet Train and Atomic Blonde, Leitch is coming off of The Fall Guy, a stuntman-themed action comedy for Universal, starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, which unspooled last March after premiering at SXSW, grossing around $181 million global. Under his 87North banner, he also recently originated Uni’s action comedy Love Hurts, starring Ke Huy Quan.
Recently under an overall deal at Sony, Bianculli is perhaps best understandn for co-creating and exec originated the NBC series Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector. On the film side, he wrote the Cliffhanger reboot, honested by Jaume Collet-Serra and starring Pierce Brosnan & Lily James, which is currently in post.
Upcoming for Imagine is Luca Guadagnino’s thriller After the Hunt, starring Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield and Ayo Edebiri, which Amazon MGM frees in theaters on October 10.
THR was first to the news of Leitch’s new project.
