EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins will crew with High Gun: Maverick’s Glen Powell in Locked, a remake of the Argentinian motion thriller 4X4, for ZQ Leisure and Raimi Productions. David Yarovesky is ready to direct. He and Raimi collaborated lately on Nightbooks. Michael Arlen Ross (Oracle) wrote the script. The unique was written and directed by Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat (Official Competitors).
Locked is an intense, character-driven thriller a few thief who breaks right into a luxurious SUV, solely to appreciate that he’s stumbled into a posh and lethal lure set by a mysterious determine. CAA Media Finance reps the worldwide distribution rights and the mission will likely be unveiled on the upcoming EFM.
Powell, most lately seen because the high-flying wingman reverse Tom Cruise and Miles Teller in High Gun: Maverick, right here will play the younger thief who finds himself not accountable for the stolen car. Raimi informed Deadline that the sturdy script permits each of the principle actors room to do one thing distinctive with their characters.
“Dave Yarovesky so elevated the fabric on Nightbooks, and he was our first selection for this,” Raimi informed Deadline. “The script was so good and he’s such communicator that we have been in a position to curiosity Anthony Hopkins, who for my era is simply in regards to the biggest actor ever. Glen’s character has acquired a soul to him that’s slowly revealed as the image goes on. It appears as if he’s only a thief, somebody that doesn’t look after others however because the movie unfolds, you understand he has a spouse and a baby that he loves and he’s wronged, and this entire expertise offers him an opportunity to replicate again on how he’s handled them, and the way he’s lived his life relative to them.”
He has good purpose to deal with all this, Raimi added.
“As a result of his time is at hand. He’s informed by Sir Anthony Hopkins’ character that this will likely be it for him, and so the self reflection is a component via the course of this journey,” Raimi stated. “However this isn’t an emotional piece as a lot as it’s an motion stress piece, a nonstop thrill trip with characters on the heart you study to care about. That will likely be a satisfying expertise for the viewers.”
Ara Keshishian and Petr Jákl are producing below their ZQ Leisure banner, with Raimi and Zainab Azizi producing for Raimi Productions. Cohn and Duprat are govt producing. Martin J. Barab can also be govt producing. Growth is financed by ZQ Leisure, whose principal Ara Keshishian has individually partnered with Matt Reeves’ 6th & Idaho to provide God’s Nation, and with George Clooney and Grant Heslov’s Smokehouse Photos on the John Grisham novel adaptation Calico Joe.
Hopkins is repped by CAA and lawyer Mitch Smelkinson; Powell is CAA and JSSK; Raimi is CAA and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller; Yarovesky by UTA and Kaplan/Perrone; Ross by Leisure 360 and Lichter, Grossman; and Cohn and Duprat by CAA and NuCo Media Group.
