Shotgun Wedding
Amazon has begun final negotiations to acquire distribution rights to Lionsgate’s Jennifer Lopez and Armie Hammer-led action-comedy “Shotgun Wedding” for many key international territories. Jason Moore helms from a screenplay co-written by Mark Hammer.
The pair play a couple who gather their lovable but very opinionated families for the ultimate destination wedding just as they begin to get cold feet. If that wasn’t enough of a threat to the celebration, suddenly everyone’s lives are in danger when the entire party is taken hostage. Filming begins early next year. [Source: Deadline]
The Green Hornet and Kato
“Jurassic Park” scribe David Koepp has hopped onboard “The Green Hornet and Kato” film at Universal and Amasia Entertainment (“Wild Mountain Thyme”). Michael Helfant will produce this new take on the story of the newspaper publisher turned vigilante crime fighter and his trusty aide Kato. [Source: The Wrap]
The Gray Man
“No Time to Die” and “Blade Runner 2049” actress Ana De Armas will re-team with her “Knives Out” co-star Chris Evans on Joe and Anthony Russo’s big budget action thriller “The Gray Man” at Netflix.
The story will follow Court Gentry (Ryan Gosling), a former CIA operative known as the Gray Man as he’s hunted across the globe by his former cohort Lloyd Hansen (Evans). Joe Russo, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely all worked on the script. [Source: Heat Vision]
Reagan & Gorbachev
Michael Douglas will play Ronald Reagan abd Christoph Waltz is Mikhail Gorbachev in James Foley’s limited series “Reagan & Gorbachev” for Paramount TV Studios. B. Garida will pen this adaptation of the book “Reagan at Reykjavik” about the 1986 summit in Iceland to negotiate a nuclear arms treaty. [Source: Vulture]