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Waypoint Entertainment
Waypoint Entertainment has acquired the rights to Captain America: Civil War comic book writer Mark Millar’s American Jesus and Supercrooks, with plans to develop each into a feature film.
Centers around a boy who realizes at age 12 that he is the second coming of Jesus Christ and sets out to try one last time to save mankind.
Jesse Plemons has joined Christian Bale and Rosamund Pike in the Scott Cooper-directed period drama Hostiles.
Jared Leto has signed on to star in the thriller The Outsider. Set in post World War II Japan, the Oscar-winning actor will play an American soldier who was released with the help of Yakuza cellmate. In the outside world, he repays him by getting involved in the criminal underworld.
Rosamund Pike Will star opposite Christian Bale in the period drama Hostiles written and directed by Scott Cooper, who recently helmed Black Mass and worked with Bale in Out of the Furnace.
Kept under wraps, but inspired by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s experiences growing up in Laredo, Texas.
The crime thriller is inspired by Gomez-Rejon’s experiences growing up in Laredo, Texas. Waypoint Entertainment, the shingle behind Shane Black’s The Nice Guys and Gus van Sant’s The Sea of Trees, is producing.
Logline: Follows a WWII American POW after being captured by the Japanese, as he eventually works his way through the rituals and hardships and becomes a member of the Yakuza, an organized cime outfit.
Logline: Follows seven supervillains as they travel to superhero-deprived Europe in order to commit the biggest heist of their careers.