(Left) Angelina Jolie in ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith.’ (Right) Halle Berry in ‘Kingsman: The Golden Circle.’
There have been nice cinematic matchups in our time. Think ‘Kramer Vs. Kramer’. ‘Earth vs. the Flying Saucers’. ‘Joe Versus the Volcano’. ‘The People vs. Larry Flynt’. ‘Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.’ ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’. We may go on, however we received’t.
You can add to that checklist, ‘Maude vs. Maude’, a brand new motion thriller that, assuming all of it comes collectively, will boast the dual star energy of Angelina Jolie and Halle Berry.
Warner Bros. is hoping it’s going to, because the probability to pit two of the most important actors on the planet in opposition to one another is definitely an interesting prospect, one the studio thinks will get individuals into cinemas. It was sufficient that it took the undertaking off the desk after a bidding warfare between a number of potential consumers.
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What is ‘Maude v Maude’ all about?
That’s the large query proper now. At this early stage, the corporate is just not releasing any plot particulars, although Deadline has heard from insiders that it’ll be a “Bond vs. Bourne” kind of worldwide motion thriller with places to be introduced. We’d anticipate the finances to be appreciable.
So far what we do know for positive is the script comes from Scott Mosier, who reduce his cinematic enamel working as Kevin Smith’s producer (and podcasting buddy) and has extra not too long ago been creating his personal films, together with writing ‘Free Birds’ and directing Illumination’s ‘The Grinch’.
In the director’s chair, Roseanne Liang, who most not too long ago made 2020’s horror/warfare film ‘Shadow in the Cloud’, which starred Chloë Grace Moretz (as, coincidentally, a personality known as Maude).
Angelina Jolie in ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith.’
Angelina Jolie and Halle Berry: Action credentials
Though they haven’t shared the display screen earlier than, each actors have loads of motion of their backgrounds. Jolie has starred within the likes of the primary two ‘Lara Croft’ films, starred in espionage movie ‘Salt’ and did loads of stuns/gunplay in ‘Wanted’.
In newer years, she’s centered extra on directing and producing, although has stayed busy in entrance of the digital camera, and did some combating in Marvel’s ‘Eternals’.
Berry, in the meantime, cropped up in ‘John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum’, however earlier than that had a run within the ‘X-Men’ films and performed NSA operative Giacinta ‘Jinx’ Johnson in Bond film ‘Die Another Day’, attending to do extra motion than a lot of her feminine predecessors within the franchise.
And she proved she nonetheless has what it takes to battle in her 2020 directorial debut ‘Bruised’, through which she starred as an MMA fighter discovering redemption.
Given their clout in Hollywood as of late, each Berry and Jolie will probably be producers on the brand new film, together with Mosier, Liang, Jeff Kirschenbaum, and Joe Roth.
Depending on the tone, this might all the time harken again to a different Jolie again catalogue entry, ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’, through which she performed an murderer reverse Brad Pitt.
(L to R) Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in 2005’s ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith.’
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