British star Hugh Grant is in negotiations to board filmmaker Guy Ritchie’s subsequent, starring Jason Statham within the lead. If finalised, the film, which was earlier titled Five Eyes, will mark a reunion between Ritchie and Grant after they labored collectively on 2019 film The Gentlemen.
As per Deadline, Ritchie will direct the brand new venture from a screenplay by Ivan Atkinson and Marn Davies. Statham will star as a MI6 guns-and-steel agent who’s recruited by international intelligence alliance Five Eyes to trace down and cease the sale of a lethal new weapons know-how that threatens to disrupt the world order.
Reluctantly paired with CIA high-tech skilled, he units off on a globe-trotting mission the place he should use all of his allure, ingenuity and stealth to trace down and infiltrate billionaire arms dealer.
The forged additionally consists of Aubrey Plaza, Josh Hartnett and Cary Elwes. Miramax will finance the venture and produce with STXfilms.
Grant, recognized for films resembling Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill and Love Actually, just lately starred in HBO sequence The Undoing reverse Nicole Kidman.