EXCLUSIVE: Just out of a earnings report that saw 10 million subscribers total during the pandemic, Netflix has just established its most financially ambitious feature film yet. Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans are ready to star The gray man, with AGBO’s Joe & Anthony Russo directing his first box office success since setting the all-time world box office record with Avengers Endgame two years ago. The intention here is to create a new franchise with a James Bond scale level and a budget of over $ 200 million.
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Russo’s AGBO is producing, and the script was written by Joe Russo, with an enamel by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, who wrote the script directed by Russo. Captain America and Avengers movies and who are co-chairs of Story on AGBO. It is based on the 2009 Mark Greaney novel that featured the Gray Man, an independent assassin and former CIA agent named Court Gentry.
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The film will be produced by AGBO’s Russo Brothers and Mike Larocca, along with Joe Roth and Jeff Kirschenbaum for Roth Kirschenbaum. They are waiting for a January start date in Los Angeles with the completion of international locations.
The action thriller is a deadly duel between assassins, as Gentry (Gosling) is hunted around the world by Lloyd Hansen (Evans), a former Gentry cohort at the CIA. The gray man Become a best-selling book series, and the expectation is that Gosling will continue in multiple installments. The project was developed years ago at New Regency as a Brad Pitt / James Gray vehicle, but stalled. The Russians have been quietly developing it for years.
“The film is a true heads-up between those two great actors, who represent two different versions of the CIA, in what it can be and what it can do,” Anthony Russo told Deadline. “For those who were fans of Captain America: winter soldier, we are moving to that territory in a more real environment. That’s what this movie really means to us. “
Joe Russo said on the scale of the film: “The intention is that it be competitive with any theater and the ability to do it with Gosling and Evans is a dream for us. The idea is to create a franchise and build an entire universe, with Ryan at the center. We’ve all been committed to the first movie and that must be great to get us into the second movie. These are murderous teachers and the Gosling characters are burned by the CIA and the Evans character has to chase him. We have an excellent working relationship with Netflix, and we go back almost 20 years with Scott Stuber. We formed AGBO to be an agnostic storytelling company, where we discover the best platform. We think Netflix is the perfect place for this movie. “
This is a lot of faith that Netflix is depositing in the Russo brothers, but apart from The Avengers box office record, the action movie produced by AGBO Extraction With Chris Hemsworth, Golshifteh Farahani, and Randeep Hooda they became the most watched Netflix original movie of all time. A sequel is in the works with Sam Hargrave returning as director and Joe Russo writing the script.
The Russo brothers formed AGBO to be a platform-independent storytelling production company, but if The gray man It works, this will give you two franchises on Netflix, each based on original IP. They are back in business with Evans, who, like Hemsworth, honored all four Marvel movies, and is working with Gosling for the first time. Recently completed the address Cherry, an independent drama based on the true story of a man suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder who is self-medicating and robbing banks in Cleveland starring Tom Holland, who is currently being purchased for distribution. The script is by Angela Russo-Otstot and Jessica Goldberg. AGBO just supervised the IFC Midnight release of the film directed by Natalie Erika Relic, the genre film that made its Sundance debut. Also have with 101 studios City of a million soldiers, written and directed by Matthew Michael Carnahan, which premiered in Venice and Toronto last fall. The drama is about a group of men fighting ISIS.
AGBO made a separate deal at Amazon Studios for Citadel, a global thriller series starring Richard Madden and Priyanka Chopra. Amazon has said that the production of the franchise in the local language will originate in Mexico, in addition to the versions in Italy and India. Madden and Chopra, who have global profiles, will star in the US edition of the “mothership” series.
The Russo brothers are also creating a live-action version of Hercules at Disney, and they’re adapting the novel Go west featuring Netflix and Michelle and Barack Obama’s highest ground productions.
“We hope to put that into production in late fall or early spring, depending on COVID,” said Joe Russo. “It is based on a tremendous book, a modern fable that deals with magical realism and tells the quintessence of the Middle East refugee story.” Anthony Russo added: “There is this element of magical realism in how the experience of being a refugee ends up playing.”
CAA represents brothers Russo, Gosling and Evans, and the latter is administered by 3 Arts.
