The Livid has been christened this 12 months’s breakout motion movie by each critics and audiences. Now, director Kenji Tanigaki is setting his sights on his subsequent authentic motion function.
Tanigaki will direct The Reckoner, which might be written by John Wick scribe Derek Kolstad and has Peter Dinklage connected to star, with plot particulars being stored underneath wraps. Lionsgate, which acquired The Livid out of final 12 months’s Toronto Movie Competition, has closed a deal for The Reckoner, with Anthony and Joe Russo’s AGBO set to supply.
Kolstad and Dinklage are additionally set to supply the function, alongside AGBO’s Angela Russo-Otstot, Michael Disco and Kassee Whiting and David Ginsberg underneath his and Dinklage’s Estuary Movies banner. The Russos will govt produce. James Myers and Pavan Kalidindi will oversee for Lionsgate.
The Reckoner marks the most recent collaboration between Lionsgate and AGBO, that are behind the upcoming John Rambo film from director Jalmari Helander and starring Noah Centineo.
“One of the rewarding elements of what we do is discovering filmmakers with distinctive voices, bringing their work to wider theatrical audiences and partnering with them as they tackle tasks of better scale and ambition,” mentioned Lionsgate Movement Image Group president Erin Westerman. “That’s precisely what excites us about Kenji Tanigaki. The Livid showcases a singular filmmaking expertise, and we’re thrilled to reunite with our buddies at AGBO to carry his daring imaginative and prescient for The Reckoner to audiences worldwide.”
Russo-Otstot, AGBO’s chief artistic officer, added, “Derek Kolstad and Peter Dinklage got here to us with a world we hadn’t encountered earlier than, authentic, action-packed and with real soul. The second we noticed what Kenji Tanigaki did with The Livid, his tackle motion so distinctive and interesting we knew instantly he was the one director who may take this imaginative and prescient and produce it to life. We couldn’t be extra thrilled to be bringing this exceptional assortment of expertise along with Lionsgate, whose dedication to daring, character-driven filmmaking makes them the right companion for this undertaking.” Along with Rambo, ABGO’s upcoming slate contains Netflix’s The Whisper Man, Marvel’s Avengers: Doomsday and the third Extraction movie.
The Livid follows Wang Wei (Xie Miao), whose daughter is kidnapped by a legal community. Together with a journalist, Navin (Joe Taslim), whose spouse has mysteriously disappeared, Wei units out on a rampage to search out his daughter. The movie grossed over $6 million on the home field workplace and over $31 million globally. (Lionsgate had worldwide rights save for mainland China, Hong Kong and Macao.)
Tanigaki — who, along with his directing work, is an award-winning stunt and struggle coordinator and choreographer— is repped by Gersh and XYZ. Dinklage is at the moment filming the second season of FX’s acclaimed Alien: Earth. He’s repped by CAA and Jackoway Austen. Kolstad, repped by UTA, Circle Administration + Manufacturing, and Behr Abramson, most not too long ago wrote and produced the Bob Odenkirk starrers Regular and No person 2.
