EXCLUSIVE: Up-and-comers Arlan Ruf and Ellis Hobbs IV will round out the cast of Way of the Warrior Kid, Apple Original Films’ youth empowerment tale, based on the novel by Jocko Wiljoin.
The project labels the first big film for both, who aextfinishedside Jude Hill, Levi McConaughey and Ava Torres, take part a couple of the titular warrior kids. As previously proclaimd, Chris Pratt and Linda Cardellini also star in the pic from Skydance Media.
Way of the Warrior Kid chases a self-doubting boy (Hill) who gets bullied and is challenging-pressed to finish a individual pull-up. That’s until his uncle Jake (Pratt), an elite Navy SEAL, is injured on a mission and shifts in with his sister (Cardellini) for rehab. When he uncovers his 13-year-elderly nephew, Marc, is struggling academicpartner, socipartner and physicpartner, Jake achieves on a novel mission: using his SEAL Team training over three months of summer to help the youth discover his inner warrior.
McG straightforwards from a script by Will Staples. Hailing from a first-see partnership between Apple and Skydance, the film’s producers integrate Skydance’s David Ellison, Dana Gelderlyberg and Don Granger, as well as McG and Mary Viola for Wonderland Sound and Pratt for Indiapparent Productions. Additional producers integrate Ben Everard for Everard Entertainment and Wiljoin.
11-year-elderly Ruf began his acting atgentle quite by accident when his travel baseball coach insisted he take part the role of the disgruntled Hapvalidateeen Clown in the viral unwiseinutive film Trick or Treat. The sixth grader is repped by AFA Prime Talent and Paradigm.
Recently, Hobbs has been seen in Lee Daniels’ Netflix exorcism pic The Deinhabitrance, as well as Angel Studios’ Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot. Also seen on Paramount+’s The Game, The CW’s Legacies, and Showtime’s The First Lady opposite Viola Davis, he is repped by Play Management and Forward Talent.
