Ryan Reynolds AND Channing Tatum are both set to star in an upcoming action comedy titled The commotion of calamity. This is a big project and Warner Bros. recently acquired the film rights that many movie studios were trying to get.
The film is described as a “mismatched buddy action movie Lethal Weapon”, and the hope is to launch a franchise. The story will be set during the holidays and “Reynolds will play a cop who has become estranged from his low-level criminal brother (Tatum). They grew up on the wrong side of the tracks and went in the opposite direction. When his brother is implicated in a diamond theft, the cop must hunt him down before those he robbed.
The film’s screenplay was written by Adam AND Aaron Nee who had previously worked on Tatum The lost city. The Nee Brothers will also direct the film. The film will be shot in New York, Los Angeles and Las Vegas. The film will include big action scenes and the budget for the film is said to be around $140 million.
I’m actually surprised that a studio was able to acquire the film, especially since, nowadays, most of these types of films are acquired by Netflix, Amazon and Apple TV+.
Deadline reports: “For days it looked like this would be another expensive package gobbled up by a streamer, but Warner Bros’ rally could signal a change in these auctions. Streamers would pay more than a traditional theater studio could, but the game is changing, and more and more directors are demanding theatrical releases of films like Napoleon and Killers of the Flower Moon before they hit streaming sites. A theatrical release with a P&A spend, if nothing else, establishes these films in pop culture, where many streaming-only films come and go with limited awareness because there’s no P&A. But streamers won’t want to pay premiums for those films, preferring to share collection of the distribution fee with the studio.
The Nee Brothers are also currently developing the live-action Masters of the Universe movies on Amazon, but The commotion of calamity it will be their next film.
Source: deadline
by Joey Paur
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