EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Oscar winner Mahershala Ali is ready to star with Tom Hardy in 77 Blackout, a criminal offense thriller set on the evening when town that by no means sleeps misplaced energy and plunged into chaos and lawlessness. Cary Joji Fukunaga is directing. Recent from the Oppenheimer Greatest Image Oscar, Charles Roven is producing together with Madison Weireter for Atlas Leisure, and William Inexperienced and Aaron Ginsburg for The Reduce.
(L-R) Charles Roven and Cary Fukunaga
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Black Bear will introduce the movie to worldwide consumers on the Cannes market, with WME repping U.S. rights. Script was written by Frank John Hughes with revisions by Fukunaga.
In 1977, 5 rogue law enforcement officials formulate a plan to rob three felony strongholds – the Hong Kong Triads, the Italian Mafia, and the Harlem Mob – multi function evening. When a blackout sweeps town the evening of the theft, the crew is compelled to navigate a hellish panorama as years of being overworked and underpaid forces every of them to confront their very own morality.
Ali, whose Oscars got here from Moonlight and Inexperienced Ebook, most lately starred in Go away the World Behind and has Blade coming, will play Ray Butler. Hardy, whose star turns embody Inception, The Revenant, Mad Max: Fury Street and the Venom franchise, performs Eddie Boyle. He beforehand labored with Roven when he performed Bane in The Darkish Knight Rises.
Fukunaga’s movies embody Daniel Craig’s 007 swan tune No Time to Die, the groundbreaking first season of True Detective, and Beasts of No Nation.