mazon MGM Studios has picked up a film about the Tourist Trophy races, along with a corresponding docuseries made by the team behind ‘Drive to Survive.’
Motorsport has well and truly captured the imagination of Hollywood. On the heels of the F1 summer blockbuster, which stars Brad Pitt as a driver for the fictional APX GP team, the A-lister will turn his attention to a new movie centered around one of the most challenging and possibly deadly races in the world — the Isle of Man TT, also known as the Tourist Trophy races.
Channing Tatum has been tapped to star in the project, which was picked up by Amazon MGM Studios, while Pitt will produce the film with his company Plan B Entertainment. The Magic Mike actor is a bike racing enthusiast, and has even travelled to the Isle of Man for the TT races in the past. He’s also appeared in several motorsport-adjacent movies, including the 2005 film, Supercross and the 2017 Steven Soderbergh-directed NASCAR flick, Logan Lucky.
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Focus Features Dates Daniel Day-Lewis’ Big Screen Return ‘Anemone’
Focus Features has locked in a release date for Anemone, its film bringing three-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis back to the big screen for the first time since Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread in 2017.
Marking the directorial debut of the actor’s son, Ronan Day-Lewis, the film is said to explore the complex and profound ties that exist between brothers, fathers, and sons. It’s slated to open in limited release on October 3rd before expanding on October 10th.
Ronan Day-Lewis directed from a script written with Daniel Day-Lewis, with Brad Pitt’s Plan B producing. The cast also includes Sean Bean, Samuel Bottomley, Safia Oakley-Green, and Samantha Morton.
‘Adolescence’ Season 2? Brad Pitt’s Plan B In Talks With Creators
Brad Pitt‘s production company Plan B Entertainment is in early talks to make what could become a second season of Adolescence after the series’ success on Netflix.
In their first interview since Adolescence went off like a firework last month, Plan B co-presidents Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner told Deadline that they are speaking to director Philip Barantini about the “next iteration” of the show, which starred and was co-created by Stephen Graham.
Gardner said they are thinking about how they can “widen the aperture, stay true to its DNA [and] not be repetitive,” but she did not wish to reveal too much about their plans. Kleiner added that they hope Graham and Jack Thorne, the British writer behind Adolescence, can reteam on the project.
‘Bono: Stories of Surrender’ Doc About U2 Singer’s One-Man Show Headed to Apple TV+
The movie directed by Andrew Dominik (The Assassination of Jesse James) is described in a press release as, “a vivid reimagining of Bono’s critically-acclaimed one-man stage show, Stories of Surrender: An Evening of Words, Music and Some Mischief…, as he pulls back the curtain on a remarkable life and the family, friends, and faith that have challenged and sustained him, revealing personal stories about his journey as a son, father, husband, activist and rockstar. Along with never-before-seen, exclusive footage from the Beacon Theatre shows, the film features Bono performing many of the iconic U2 songs that have shaped his life and legacy.”
Plan B’s Jeremy Kleiner and Dede Gardner on Their Filmmaker-First Approach
Nobody’s doing it quite like Plan B Entertainment’s Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner. This year, the company’s co-heads (who oversee Plan B with Brad Pitt) brought RaMell Ross’ epic Colson Whitehead adaptation “Nickel Boys” to Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay (Ross with Joslyn Barnes) Oscar nominations after Amazon released the 1960s-set, formally daring civil rights drama in theaters last fall. They join this week’s episode of IndieWire’s “Screen Talk” podcast with co-host Anne Thompson to talk honoring the “acrobatics and the courage and the bravery and the gymnastics” of Whitehead’s text, Ross’ innovative first-person camera work with cinematographer Jomo Fray, and the anxiety-inducing challenge of the film’s ending.
