The ‘Grey Man’ and ‘High Gun: Maverick’ alums will each exec produce the untitled collection from AGBO, with ‘The Eternals’ duo Kaz and Ryan Firpo set to put in writing.
Regé-Jean Web page and Glen Powell are headed West.
The Bridgerton alum and High Gun: Maverick grad are poised to star in an untitled reimagining of Butch and Sundance for Amazon. The straight-to-series drama, which landed at Amazon following a aggressive state of affairs with each Disney+ and Peacock bidding, will probably be exec produced by Joe and Anthony Russo’s AGBO. Cousins Kaz and Ryan Firpo (The Eternals) will pen the scripts for the collection, which is envisioned as a bigger franchise with a number of collection and spinoffs.
Particulars are slim, and all events concerned declined to remark as offers have but to shut, however sources say the untitled Butch and Sundance collection will happen in an alternate America akin to Apple’s For All Mankind and Amazon’s former Man within the Excessive Fortress.
The thought for the reimagined Butch and Sundance began with the Russos and AGBO, who introduced in Web page throughout their collaboration for Netflix’s The Grey Man. Web page will play Butch Cassidy, whereas Powell will tackle the function of the Sundance Child. AGBO introduced in Powell because the co-lead as execs on the firm are followers of the his. Web page and Powell, together with the Russos’ AGBO, then introduced within the Firpos to put in writing. Web page and Powell will even be credited as exec producers and can proceed to stay actively concerned within the present’s inventive.
Mike Larocca, Angela Russo-Otstot and Scott Nemes will even exec produce for AGBO alongside Joe and Anthony Russo, Web page and Powell. An episode depend has not but been decided because the mission stays in its early phases. A director has not but been recognized.
The brand new Butch and Sundance extends AGBO and the Russos’ relationship with Amazon, the place they have already got sprawling drama Citadel within the works. The so-called world occasion collection from the Avengers: Endgame administrators and Josh Applebaum and Andrew Nemec is described as a spy thriller starring Richard Madden and Priyanka Chopra. The collection, which was greenlit in mid-2018, has skilled a spherical of costly reshoots amid inventive challenges behind the scenes.
The Web page-Powell collection takes inspiration from 1969’s Western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Child. The function starred Paul Newman as Butch and Robert Redford because the Sundance Child and adopted the duo as they have been on the run from authorities following a string of prepare robberies. The pic received 4 Ocsars, was chosen for preservation by the U.S. Nationwide Movie Registry by the Library of Congress and named because the 73rd best American movie by the AFI.
The AGBO tackle Butch and Sundance comes as Scott Steindorff and Dylan Russell’s Stone Village TV can be prepping a collection primarily based on Charles Leerhsen’s e book concerning the famed outlaws, Butch Cassidy: The True Story of an American Outlaw. The mission is presently being shopped with a deal for a author additionally within the works, sources say.
Web page, for his half, broke out in season certainly one of Shonda Rhimes’ first present for Netflix, Bridgerton. He has the Dungeons & Dragons function movie within the works. He’s repped by CAA, the U.Ok.’s The Artists Partnership, Johnson Shapiro and Shelter PR.
Powell, along with High Gun: Maverick, counts Netflix’s breakout Set It Up, Hidden Figures, Everyone Desires Some! and The Expendables 3 amongst his credit. He’s repped by CAA, Johnson Shapiro and the Initiative Group.
The Russos and AGBO are with CAA.