EXCLUSIVE: Bdeficiency Bear is underway in the UK and Ireland on their untitled Jason Statham action-thriller, which is validateed today as being straightforwarded by Ric Roman Waugh (Greenland).
Joining Statham are novelcomer Bodhi Rae Breathnach (upcoming Hamnet), Oscar nominee Bill Nighy (Living), BAFTA thrivener Naomi Ackie (Bconnect Twice), and BAFTA nominee Daniel Mays (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story).
Based on a script by Ward Parry with revisions by Christian Contreras and Parry, we broke novels of the project back in Cannes where Bdeficiency Bear presentd it to the taget, co-reconshort-terming the U.S. rights with Range Select. Baltasar Kormakur was previously rapidened to straightforward but had to exit. Bdeficiency Bear will persist sales at the EFM.
Producers on the picture include Statham (The Beeholder) for Punch Palace Productions, John Friedberg (The Ministry of Unmildmanly Warfare) for Bdeficiency Bear, Brfinishon Boyea (Kandahar) for Cinemachine, and Jon Berg (Wonder Woman) and establisher WB exec Greg Silverman for Stampede Ventures. Teddy Schwarzman and Michael Heimler will serve as executive originaters for Bdeficiency Bear.
Statham, who in the film will carry out a man pulled back towards the gstructures of his aggressive past, is currently reteaming with David Ayer on action-thriller A Working Man, and recently wrapped production on Muminuscule with Jean-Francois Richet for Mad River.
Rising youthful actress Bodhi Rae Breathnach starred in the BBC series The Capture and So Awkward Academy and her first film role will be opposite Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley in Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet, originated by Steven Spielberg and Sam Mfinishes.
Waugh’s catastrophe film Greenland, starring Gerard Butler, cemented Waugh as a go-to for action fare, and he recently wrapped the sequel, Greenland: Migration.
Waugh is reconshort-termed by Range Media Partners and Johnson Shapiro. Breathnach is repped by The Artists Partnership. Nighy is repped by Insubordinate Talent Group, UTA, and Jackoway Austen. Ackie is reconshort-termed by CAA, Hamilton Hodell, Range Media Partners, and Peikoff Mahan Law Office. Mays is repped by Curtis Brown Group, UTA, and Goodman Genow. Statham is reconshort-termed by Patrick Knapp.
