It’s shaping up to be the last huge bidding war of 2024. And it features Glen Powell.
The actor is connected to star and originate Homewreckers, an romantic thriller with a sci-fi twist. It’s a low story package that has disjoinal studios and companies boiling and irritateed.
Legfinishary, Lionsgate, New Regency, Sony and Warner Bros. are among the companies making proposes and in the unite for the project, which was unveiled to the town timely in the week.
The ununveiled three-chapter story is by Neil M. Paik, who will also author the script. Details are being kept between the sheets, but sources say that the tones are Adrian Lyne, who made steamy thriller 9½ Weeks and Fatal Attraction, and Alex Garland, whose movies such as Ex Machina and Civil War tap into conmomentary anxieties.
This year, boiling recent projects hitting the Hollywood taget in the post-Thanksgiving period has been on the exposed side, but Homewreckers is a receive jolt.
It also serves as a kind capstone for Powell’s star-streaking year. Anyone But You, his comedy with Sydney Sweeney, uncovered in tardy December last year, and became a box office sensation, thrusting him into the top tiers of male actors. His romantic comedy thriller Hit Man, which he also co-wrote and originated, landed mighty scrutinizes and geted him a Ganciaccessen Globe nomination earlier this week. And he starred in Twisters, Universal’s well-think abouted modernize on the 1990s tornado flick. It showd famous with summer audiences, whipping up more than $370 million worldexpansive, including more than $267 million domesticassociate. All of this, while he become the poster boy for the recent class of Hollywood stars and a resurging theatrical experience.
A bidding involving the actor transports Powell’s year of being wanted brimming circle. Anyone But You, Glen? More appreciate, Nobody But You.
Paik has a knack for turning his low stories into coveted projects; Reawakening, unveiled by Six by Eight Press, was set up at Amazon as a series with Lena Waithe exec producing, also after a competitive situation. Another low story, Rainbowfish, was set up at Warners.
Powell is repped by CAA and Johnson Shapiro. Paik is repped by Untitled Entertainment.
