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Rick Famuyiwa to Direct Vigilante Superhero Film “Past Midnight” for Netflix with Keanu Reeves in Talks
Avengers: Infinity War directors Joe and Anthony Russo are producing the vigilante superhero movie with a plot that’s being kept under wraps.
Serving a 65 year prison sentence for vigilantism, a former superhero is released early to help the police fight his arch-nemesis who has seemingly returned from the dead.
Set in the ’70s in the Pacific Northwest, Charles Burns’ acclaimed graphic novel follows a group of high school kids who contract a mysterious STD known as “the Bug” that causes physical mutations, leaving the community to deal with the fallout.
Based on the graphic novel by Jay Longino and Caanan White, Son of Shaolin is a modern-day kung fu epic that combines Shaolin mythology with urban gentrification.
The upcoming big-screen adaptation of the DC superhero The Flash at Warner Bros. has hit a speed bump. Rick Famuyiwa has recently left his post as the director over “creative differences.”
A contemporary Kung-Fu story that intertwines Shaolin mythology with many of the current issues faced by teens growing up in a gentrifying neighborhood like Harlem.
