EXCLUSIVE: Common Photos and 87North are growing Restricted Version, an motion movie to star the Quick & Livid franchise’s Ludacris which has locked in Novocaine helmers Dan Berk and Robert Olsen to put in writing and direct.
Plot particulars are being saved beneath wraps. However Kelly McCormick and David Leitch will produce by way of 87North’s first-look take care of Common. Additionally producing and overseeing the challenge for 87North is Braden Aftergood, who as we solely reported in December, only in the near past joined the corporate after co-founding Sylvester Stallone’s Balboa.
Govt Vice President of Manufacturing Improvement Jay Polidoro and Director of Improvement Tony Ducret will oversee Restricted Version for the studio.
A multi-platinum, Grammy-winning rapper and actor, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges is widely known for his function as Tej, a core member of Dominic Toretto’s (Vin Diesel) crew, in Common’s Quick & Livid franchise, one of the profitable motion movie collection in historical past. His different movie credit embody the Oscar-winning Crash, the Oscar-nominated Hustle & Circulation, and the 2023 vacation comedy Dashing Via the Snow. In a profession spanning almost three a long time, Ludacris has offered greater than 20 million albums, earned three Grammys, and secured 5 No. 1 singles on the Billboard Scorching 100. His catalog contains 4 No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200, 56 Scorching 100-charting singles, and 18 Prime 10 data. He’s repped by UTA, managers Chaka Zulu and Jeff Dixon of Ebony Son Leisure, and lawyer Darrell Miller of Fox Rothschild.
Berk and Olsen are coming off of Novocaine, the ingenious Jack Quaid-led motion comedy centered on a person incapable of feeling ache, which garnered important acclaim, opening at #1 on the field workplace in March earlier than transferring on to change into a chart-topping streaming title. Previous to that, the pair helmed Important Different, a sci-fi thriller for Paramount starring Maika Monroe and Jake Lacy. Moreover, they wrote and directed Villains, a horror comedy starring Monroe, Invoice Skarsgård, Jeffery Donovan, and Kyra Sedgwick, which premiered to important acclaim at SXSW in 2019. The duo is repped by UTA, Kaplan Perrone, and Frankfurt Kurnit Klein + Selz.
Coming off of the movies Love Hurts and No person 2, 87North’s upcoming slate additionally contains tasks just like the Leitch-directed The best way to Rob a Financial institution, Violent Evening 2, Ballerina Overdrive, and the Jorma Taccone thriller Over Your Useless Physique.
