Chad Stahelski is producing The Professionals, an motion film billed as a cross between John Wick and Clue.
THR studies that Chad Stahelski is producing The Professionals. After I learn the title, I initially thought this may be a remake of the 1966 Western starring Burt Lancaster and Lee Marvin, however no. The mission is alleged to be a cross between John Wick and Clue. I can get down with that.
The movie follows “a group of contract killers stranded in an English countryside estate when one of them is murdered and the remaining group has to solve the death.” Stahelski will produce alongside Alex Younger and Jason Spitz, his companions at 87Eleven, in addition to Jason Michael Berman and Jordan Moldo of Mandalay Photos. Hunter Perot, grandson of the late Ross Perot, wrote the preliminary draft of the screenplay. Madison Turner, a stuntman-turned-writer and son of longtime stunt performer Tierre Turner, is now tackling the script.
Chad Stahelski has loads of tasks on his slate, together with a reboot of Highlander. The mission has spent years in improvement, however in the end, it lastly appears to be shifting ahead. Earlier this summer season, Stahelski mentioned that he was slated to begin capturing early subsequent yr. “We start shooting in January in Scotland, that’s why I go right after I leave. I go to Scotland on Monday to do the final location scout. It’s another opportunity to do a property that I love,” he mentioned. “I really like what it’s about, I really like working with immortality and love tales by time. I feel it’s a great way to take an incredible interval piece, and sci-fi, and blend them collectively.“
He’s additionally growing a TV collection based mostly on Jonathan Maberry’s Joe Ledger novels; a feature-film adaptation of hit online game Ghosts of Tsushima; in addition to John Wick: The Excessive Desk, a TV collection going down immediately after the top of John Wick: Chapter 4 which goals to “combine new and old and thrust the Wick universe into a new age.” He’s a busy dude.
Stahelski additionally produces the upcoming John Wick spinoff, Ballerina, which stars Ana de Armas as a younger lady with killer expertise who units out to get revenge when hitmen kill her household. The movie will hit theaters on June 6, 2025.
