Exclusive: Brendan Fraser is to star in The Professionals, a loose remake of the Christian Slater-fronted action movie Soldiers of Fortune for Scandinavian Svod service Viaplay.
The Mummy and Trust star is to front The Professionals, based on the Jeff Most-produced film, alongside Smallville’s Tom Welling, Wonder Woman’s Elena Anaya, John Wick 3’s Saïd Taghmaoui, Inglourious Basterds’ Ken Duken, Force Majeure’s Lisa Loven Kongsli and Das Boot’s August Wittgenstein.
The ten-part English-language series, which has just begun filming in South Africa and Ireland, was commissioned by Viaplay with German broadcaster Rtl II pre-buying the free-tv rights.
The Professionals is set against a backdrop of international espionage and corporate sabotage in the 21st century’s privately-funded space race and follow Welling as a hardened former counterintelligence officer Captain Vincent Corbo. After their advanced medical satellite explodes on deployment, billionaire futurist Peter Swann, played by Fraser,...
The Mummy and Trust star is to front The Professionals, based on the Jeff Most-produced film, alongside Smallville’s Tom Welling, Wonder Woman’s Elena Anaya, John Wick 3’s Saïd Taghmaoui, Inglourious Basterds’ Ken Duken, Force Majeure’s Lisa Loven Kongsli and Das Boot’s August Wittgenstein.
The ten-part English-language series, which has just begun filming in South Africa and Ireland, was commissioned by Viaplay with German broadcaster Rtl II pre-buying the free-tv rights.
The Professionals is set against a backdrop of international espionage and corporate sabotage in the 21st century’s privately-funded space race and follow Welling as a hardened former counterintelligence officer Captain Vincent Corbo. After their advanced medical satellite explodes on deployment, billionaire futurist Peter Swann, played by Fraser,...
- 5/31/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Shoot underway in London on UK thriller with star of Us drama Revenge.
Principal photography is underway in London on UK thriller Level Up, starring Josh Bowman and Neil Maskell (Kill List).
British actor Bowman is best known for his long-running role as Daniel Grayson in Us drama series Revenge, which he left earlier this year after four seasons on the show in a dramatic exit.
In Level Up, Bowman stars as a man who must make his way across London while fighting off a host of sinister characters to save his kidnapped girlfriend.
Adam Randall makes his feature directorial debut, having previously made several shorts including Hooded (2007), from a script by Gary Young (Harry Brown).
The Independent and Fulwell 73 production is produced by Andrew Orr (Independent), Danny Potts (Dp Film) and Heather Greenwood (Fulwell 73). Independent will also handle international sales.
Executive producers are Leo Pearlman (Fulwell 73), Jan Pace and James Atherton (Quickfire...
Principal photography is underway in London on UK thriller Level Up, starring Josh Bowman and Neil Maskell (Kill List).
British actor Bowman is best known for his long-running role as Daniel Grayson in Us drama series Revenge, which he left earlier this year after four seasons on the show in a dramatic exit.
In Level Up, Bowman stars as a man who must make his way across London while fighting off a host of sinister characters to save his kidnapped girlfriend.
Adam Randall makes his feature directorial debut, having previously made several shorts including Hooded (2007), from a script by Gary Young (Harry Brown).
The Independent and Fulwell 73 production is produced by Andrew Orr (Independent), Danny Potts (Dp Film) and Heather Greenwood (Fulwell 73). Independent will also handle international sales.
Executive producers are Leo Pearlman (Fulwell 73), Jan Pace and James Atherton (Quickfire...
- 3/5/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: CAA has landed James Corden, who was great opposite Keira Knightley in the John Carney-directed Can A Song Save Your Life?, which premiered at Toronto and was quickly acquired by The Weinstein Company after a bidding war. Corden also stars in TWC’s Paul Potts biopic One Chance as the unknown-turned-opera star, and opposite Meryl Strep and Johnny Depp in Rob Marshall’s Into The Woods. A Tony winner last year for his Broadway turn in One Man, Two Guvnors, Coreden also won a Best Comedy Performance BAFTA for the BBC sitcom Gavin & Stacey, which he co-created, co-wrote, and starred in. He continues to be repped in the UK by Ruth Young United Agents and his attorney is Jason Sloane.
- 9/20/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
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