Woody Harrelson has signed a deal to interchange Jason Statham in ‘The Man From Toronto,’ becoming a member of Kevin Hart within the action-comedy from Columbia Footage.
Harrelson has signed a deal to interchange Jason Statham in The Man From Toronto, becoming a member of Kevin Hart within the action-comedy from Columbia Footage. Statham was in talks to star reverse Hart however abruptly backed out per week in the past.
The action star was insisting on making an R-rated movie, however Sony execs didn’t budge of their perception in making a broader, four-quadrant movie. Together with his deal nonetheless not signed, Statham exited, leaving Sony, now going through a manufacturing that was solely six weeks from taking pictures, within the lurch.
A scramble for a brand new actor was on, with Sony touchdown on Harrelson, who was already a studio favourite having starred in two Zombieland pics for the Culver Metropolis-based firm, in addition to lately wrapping a flip in its upcoming Venom 2.
The action-comedy makes use of a case of a mistaken id as its jumping-off level after the world’s deadliest murderer, often known as the Man from Toronto, and a New York Metropolis screw-up run into one another at an Airbnb. A conflict of personalities, and a conflict with lethal killers, ensues.
Patrick Hughes, who directed the 2017 Ryan Reynolds-Samuel L. Jackson starrer The Hitman’s Bodyguard, is on board to helm. Robbie Fox wrote the script from a narrative by Fox and Jason Blumenthal. Blumenthal can also be producing, together with Todd Black and Steve Tisch, his companions at Escape Artists.
Sony has The Man From Toronto slotted for a Nov. 20 launch.
Harrelson, who’s repped by CAA, was final in theaters with the Zombieland sequel Double Faucet and the World Warfare II movie Halfway. He’s set for Sony’s Venom sequel and the Ruben Ostlund-directed Triangle of Unhappiness.
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