(L to R) John Cena, Awkwafina and Simu Liu be a part of director Paul Feig’s ‘Grand Death Lotto.’
Paul Feig is placing collectively one thing of a ‘Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings’ reunion, casting Simu Liu and Awkwafina in his newest, ‘Grand Death Lotto,’ with the additional bonus of John Cena.
The new action comedy, which Feig will direct from Rob Yescombe’s script, will kick off filming subsequent week and can premiere on Prime Video worldwide.
Says Feig, “I love action comedy and extreme physical comedy and this movie has both in abundance, as well as a boatload of heart and hilarity. This lotto will make winners of us all.”
According to Amazon and MGM Studios boss Jennifer Salke,
“’Grand Death Lotto’ is the kind of original idea audiences have been craving, and there’s no one better than the endlessly talented Paul Feig to steer the ship. We can’t wait to watch John Cena, Awkwafina, and Simu Liu bring this fun, action-packed script to life for our Prime Video customers around the world.”
Though he’s largely been identified for extra simple comedy, Feig is hardly a stranger to including motion within the combine –– 2016’s ‘Ghostbusters’ featured loads of spooky fight, whereas there was espionage threats in ‘Spy’, cop shootouts in ‘The Heat’ and magical battles in his latest ‘The School for Good and Evil’.
Paul Feig attends the World Premiere Of Netflix’s ‘The School For Good And Evil’ at Regency Village Theatre on October 18, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. Photo by Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Netflix.
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What’s the story of Paul Feig’s new film?
The official synopsis reads: “In the very near future, the Grand Lottery has been established in economically challenged California. The only catch? Kill the winner before sundown and you can legally claim their prize. New LA transplant Katie (Awkwafina) accidentally finds herself with the winning ticket and must join forces with amateur jackpot protector Noel (Cena) to make it to sundown in order to claim her multi-billion dollar prize, all while dealing with Noel’s protection rival Louis Lewis (Liu), who also wants to get her to sundown in order to claim his rich protection commission.
Awkwafina will next be seen in horror comedy ‘Renfield’ (in theaters on April 14th) and heard in Disney’s new version of ‘The Little Mermaid’, which will swim into theaters on May 26th.
Liu has ‘One True Loves’ due out on April 7th and has a role in Greta Gerwig’s ‘Barbie’, which is out on July 21st.
And Cena –– assuming anyone can see him –– will reprise his role as Jakob Toretto in ‘Fast X’, headed our way on May 19th.
John Cena in ‘F9.’
The fear of violent death is also something that will concern Isabela Merced, who is transitioning from the romantic complications of Hulu’s ‘Rosaline’ to the new ‘Alien’ movie that Fede Álvarez is making.
Having made the likes of ‘Don’t Breathe’ and ‘Evil Dead’, Álvarez surprised everyone by convincing Ridley Scott –– who is considered the man largely in charge of decisions about future movies containing killer xenomorphs and more –– to let him make a new entry in the long-running sci-fi terror franchise.
Merced, who has also been seen in movies such as ‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ and the recent ‘Father of the Bride’, will join Cailee Spaeny in the film.
Isabela Merced as Juliet in 20th Century Studios’ ‘Rosaline,’ exclusively on Hulu. Photo courtesy of 20th Century Studios. © 2022 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.
What is Fede Álvarez ‘s new ‘Alien’ movie about?
Little is yet known about exactly what will happen in the movie, but when the news first broke, 20th Century Studios boss Steve Asbell commented that Scott and the studio had been convinced by the director’s pitch, which will include “a bunch of characters you haven’t seen before”.
The new film gained’t immediately observe the unique sequence of extraterrestrial horror/motion films as kicked off by Scott’s ‘Alien’ in 1979, nor will it proceed the story within the director’s ‘Prometheus’-led prequel movies (Scott retains saying he’ll make one other of these himself). Instead, it’ll be set in the identical universe following a brand new set of characters coping with facehugger/xenomorph terror.
And we don’t, after all, know the way Spaeny and Merced’s characters will issue into that, however we’d should guess they’ll spend a while combating for his or her lives.
Álvarez definitely has the horror chops to drag off a compelling new ‘Alien’ film, which for the previous few years has largely been the province of Scott. And although he’s been prolific of late, he hasn’t returned to the universe since 2017’s ‘Alien: Covenant’.
Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley in James Cameron’s ‘Aliens.’
Neill Blomkamp took a crack round 2014/2015, releasing idea artwork for a film that might observe Sigourney Weaver’s Ellen Ripley from the Scott movies, however other than plenty of social media exercise, it will definitely obtained delayed indefinitely in order to not muddy the xenomorph waters earlier than ‘Covenant’.
You can think about, then, that Álvarez should have provide you with one thing fascinating to have Scott give him the thumbs up. Either that, or the venerable filmmaker has so many different initiatives on his plate between directing and producing duties that he merely realized he wanted to offer another person an opportunity for some time. He has his Napoleon movie, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby, in post-production now.
Though it has but to announce a launch date, we will think about that, with filming underway, the film might properly hit theaters in 2024.
Merced has a few different films on the best way, together with John Green adaptation ‘Turtles All the Way Down’ and Sony’s Spider-universe superhero movie ‘Madame Web’, which will probably be out on February sixteenth subsequent yr.
2012’s ‘Prometheus.’
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