UFC champ Michael Bisping and Feral actor George Finn be a part of forces for a high-stakes heist within the Nika Agiashvili-directed Atlas King.
Hollywood is getting extra muscle as UFC Middleweight Champion Michael Bisping (Den of Thieves, xXx: Return of Xander Cage, Twin Peaks) joins George Finn (Extraction 2, Feral, Simply Earlier than I Go) for Atlas King, an upcoming heist thriller from director Nika Agiashvili (Daughter of the Wolf, Delilah, The Harsh Lifetime of Veronica Lambert).
The “gritty thriller” heads to Cannes courtesy of Storyman Footage. Agiashvili produces alongside John Edward Lee and Finn by way of Storyman. Bisping is a producer, and Giga Chikadze is an affiliate producer. Manufacturing ought to kick off this summer season in Los Angeles.
Based on Deadline’s unique report, Atlas King “follows a hardened ex-fighter (Bisping in the titular role), who comes back to town after years in exile to bury his best friend and settle old debts. Reunited with his godson (Finn), a street-level enforcer tied to a criminal syndicate, the two forge an uneasy alliance and plot a high-stakes heist to escape the grip of a ruthless mob boss.”
UFC followers know Michael Bisping as a British power of nature. From 2004 to 2017, his profession noticed him draw blood from opponents and force-feed them octagon items. His first function got here in 2010 for Mike Gunther’s Beatdown, an motion crime thriller a couple of revered avenue fighter pressured to flee the town after his brother is murdered and the cash that was purported to be paid again to an area gangster is stolen. He’s appeared in movies like Plastic, The Anomaly, My Title is Lenny, Triple Risk, Den of Thieves, Den of Thieves 2: Pantera, and tv exhibits like Warrior, MacGyver, and Darkish Matter.
George Finn is a star of screens giant and small. His newest function was in Mark Younger’s zombie horror Feral, and his newest tv look was for S.W.A.T.
“I’m thrilled to collaborate with Nika and his team,” Bisping mentioned. “The script grabbed me from the beginning.”
Atlas King feels like a superb platform for Micheal Bisping and George Finn. I hope Bisping will get to crack some skulls whereas executing an intricate heist alongside Finn.
Are you accustomed to Michael Bisping’s UFC profession? Will he and Finn have improbable chemistry? We’ll discover out quickly sufficient.
