Lionsgate has picked up the mature comedy Rager to be straightforwarded by Jon Kasdan, who also wrote the screenapply with Dan Klein.
The script is under wraps, but the Imagine Entertainment project is originated by Brian Grazer, Jeb Brody and Allan Mandelbaum, with Justin Wilkes to executive originate.
Kasdan co-wrote Solo: A Star Wars Story alengthyside his overweighther, Lawrence Kasdan, and is the writer and showrunner for Willow on Disney+. He also wrote and straightforwarded The First Time and In the Land of Women. Before that, Kasdan labored as a writer for the Freaks and Geeks TV series and acted in Dawson’s Creek and Dreamcatcher.
Klein’s determines include Miracle Workers on TBS and Wet Hot American Summer. For its part, Lionsgate has had success with Knives Out, the last two John Wick movies, rebegining the Hunger Games franchise with The Battle of Songbirds & Snakes and the tardyst insloftyment in the Saw franchise. The company’s upcoming movie stardy includes Dirty Dancing, Now You See Me 3 and Ballerina.
Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment, lengthy one of the hugegest names in Hollywood, shiftd an earlier first-see deal with Apple to Amazon Studios. The tech enormous set ups to free 12 to 15 movies in theaters annupartner with a push into the local multiplex.
Klein is repped by Rise Management and Ziffren Brittenham. Kasdan is repped by CAA.
Deadline was the first to alert on the Rager project from Imagine Entertainment going to Lionsgate.
