Ashley Avis To Helm ‘City Of Angels’ Romance Based On Wim Wenders’ ‘Wings Of Desire’ For Warner Bros
Exclusive: Filmmaker Ashley Avis (Black Beauty) has been tapped to write and direct the romance City of Angels, based on Wim Wenders’ 1987 classic City of Angels, for Warner Bros, Atlas Entertainment and Perez Pictures.
This reimagining of Wenders’ romantic fantasy, which won him the Cannes Film Festival’s prize for Best Director, will follow the journey of a guardian angel who falls in love with a mortal man, a lonely jazz musician in Manhattan she is tasked to guide. It’s the second remake titled City of Angels to emerge from Warner Bros on the heels of Brad Silberling’s 1998 film, starring Nicolas Cage and Meg Ryan, which grossed over $198M worldwide.
Atlas Entertainment’s Charles Roven produced that pic and will also produce the new take alongside Rebecca Steel Roven Oakley, as well as Paul Perez (Warner Bros/HBO Max’s Father...
This reimagining of Wenders’ romantic fantasy, which won him the Cannes Film Festival’s prize for Best Director, will follow the journey of a guardian angel who falls in love with a mortal man, a lonely jazz musician in Manhattan she is tasked to guide. It’s the second remake titled City of Angels to emerge from Warner Bros on the heels of Brad Silberling’s 1998 film, starring Nicolas Cage and Meg Ryan, which grossed over $198M worldwide.
Atlas Entertainment’s Charles Roven produced that pic and will also produce the new take alongside Rebecca Steel Roven Oakley, as well as Paul Perez (Warner Bros/HBO Max’s Father...
- 4/13/2023
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- Deadline Film + TV
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