Overview
- - The package is being shopped at Berlin’s European Film Market, with Black Bear committed to a wide U.S. release and handling international sales.
- - CAA Media Finance arranged financing for the filmmakers, while Amazon is reported to be circling rights in multiple territories.
- - Statham is set to play himself in a PG-13, tongue-in-cheek action vehicle written by Alison Flierl.
- - David Leitch directs and produces with Kelly McCormick for 87North, alongside Jason Statham’s Punch Palace, Black Bear’s John Friedberg, and Beryllium’s Meredith Berg and Ethan Erwin.
- - The film marks the duo’s first reunion since 2019’s Hobbs & Shaw and is being pitched as a rare large-scale play in today’s indie marketplace.