Underworld and Divergent star James next will be seen as the lead in Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen TV series for Netflix.īlack Bear International’s stacked Cannes slate includes Ritchie’s upcoming untitled action movie, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Henry Cavill and Eiza González Matthew McConaughey crime thriller The Rivals of Amziah King from Black Bear Pictures and Heyday the romantic drama On Swift Horses, starring Daisy Edgar Jones, Jacob Elordi and Will Poulter Max Minghella’s thriller Shell, starring Elisabeth Moss, Kate Hudson and Kaia Gerber and Timur Bekmambetov’s Motor City starring Alan Ritchson. Wan, whose Conjuring Universe is the highest-grossing horror franchise in history, recently produced M3GAN and is also known for directing tentpoles including Furious 7 ($1.5B) and Aquaman ($1.15 B). We can’t wait for audiences to see Theo James in this role – he is really going to knock it out the park with an amazing performance.” It perfectly checks the box of what is working in the marketplace right now and will be a hot property. And I can’t imagine anyone better than a visionary and lifelong genre fan like Osgood to bring this to life.”Īdded Cloth and Caplan: “We couldn’t be more excited to partner with Osgood, James, Brian and our friends at Black Bear International to present Stephen King’s The Monkey. The Monkey is a personal favorite, with its simple, iconic and incredibly marketable conceit. He had a huge influence on me as a child and throughout my career, and it’s always been a dream to help bring one of his stories to life. Talking about the film, Wan said: “Stephen King is the godfather of the horror genre.

The project was developed with Atomic Monster and Stars Collective, with C2 Motion Picture Group coming on board to fully finance. But when the mysterious deaths begin again, the brothers must reunite to find a way to destroy the monkey for good before it takes the lives of everyone close to them. Additional casting is underway.Īutomatik’s Brian Kavanaugh-Jones ( Insidious) and Fred Berger ( La La Land), Chris Ferguson (Child’s Play) and Stars Collective’s Peter Luo and Nancy Xu will executive produce alongside John Friedberg ( Greenland) for Black Bear International. The brothers decide to throw the monkey away and move on with their lives, growing apart over the years.

In The Monkey, when twin brothers Hal and Bill discover their father’s old monkey toy in the attic, a series of gruesome deaths starts occurring all around them. Black Bear International is launching the project ahead of the Cannes market, where it will be among hot titles.

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