Let Him Go
The Kevin Costner and Diane Lane-led crime drama “Let Him Go” has been given a new November 6th release date by Focus Features, moving back three months from its previously scheduled August 21st bow. Thomas Bezucha helms the project.
The pair, who previously played the Kents in “Man of Steel,” play a retired Montana ranch-owning sheriff and his wife who set out to rescue their just orphaned young grandson from the clutches of a dangerous family living off the grid in the Dakotas. When they discover that family have no intention of letting the child go, the pair are left with no choice but to fight for their family. [Source: Deadline]
Sex and Vanity
Sony Pictures and SK Global have snagged the film rights to “Crazy Rich Asians” author Kevin Kwan’s newest novel “Sex and Vanity” which was published last month. Kwan will produce the film alongside John Penotti from Ivanhoe Pictures.
The studios reportedly won a ‘fierce bidding war’ for the project which tells the “glittering tale of a young woman who finds herself torn between two men: the WASPY fiance of her family’s dreams and George Zao, the man she is desperately trying to avoid falling in love with.” [Source: THR]
Shell
HBO Max has acquired Jack Stanley’s spec script “Shell,” a satirical horror tale with sci-fi elements set in the health and beauty industry, and have attached actor and filmmaker Max Minghella to direct. Plot details are under wraps. Fred Berger and Alicia Van Couvering produce. [Source: Deadline]
Songbird
Bradley Whitford (“Get Out”) and Jenna Ortega (“Jane the Virgin”) have boarded the Michael Bay-produced pandemic thriller “Songbird” which begins shooting today. The pair join Demi Moore, Craig Robinson, Paul Walter Hauser, and Peter Stormare in the project which is the first feature film to shoot in Los Angeles since the COVID-19 lockdown. Adam Mason directs and co-wrote the script with Simon Boyes. [Source: Deadline]
Untitled Buried Treasure Project
Studio 8 has hired Jake Szymanski (“The Package”) to direct an action comedy based on journalist Hudson Morgan’s story about his misadventures in the Rocky Mountains as he search for a New Mexico art dealer’s buried cache of gold and jewels. The treasure hunt in 2010 attracted thousands and only last month it was revealed that a man who wished to remain anonymous had discovered the cache.
Morgan’s script follows a group of millennials set out after the treasure after their best friend disappears. That led to shouting matches, natural hazards and close calls with grizzlies in a project dubbed “The Goonies” meets “The Hangover”. Jeff Robinov, Guy Danella and John Graham will produce. [Source: Variety]
