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EXCLUSIVE: The Sony Pictures and Platinum Dunes thriller It Had To Be You is locking successful 1 of nan champion action board successful municipality arsenic Sam Hargrave is coming connected to helm nan pic. Eliza Jane Brazier wrote nan book which is based connected her caller of nan aforesaid name. She is besides an exec producer.
The movie follows 2 statement killers, each pinch a deed retired connected nan other, must conflict their increasing attraction arsenic they look disconnected successful an epic crippled of lust and execution crossed Western Europe.
Sam Hargrave will nutrient on pinch Cameron Fuller of Platinum Dunes. Fuller has put nan task together since its inception, trading nan spec to nan workplace without immoderate talent past twelvemonth and played a large portion successful landing Hargrave. Sony will now look to onshore to high-profile stars for its starring roles that is judge to pull plentifulness of talent pinch Hargrave now connected board.
Hargrave continues to turn a robust slate pinch tentpole projects that includes his upcoming Matchbox: nan Movie, which bows this summertime from Apple and Skydance and stars John Cena. He is presently successful pre-production connected nan adjacent installment successful nan Extraction series, which will sprout this summertime pinch Chris Hemsworth returning to star.
Since opening his profession arsenic a stuntman and stunt coordinator, Hargrave has established himself arsenic a filmmaker of note, known for unsocial and characteristic driven action successful his activity crossed movie and television. A five-time victor of nan Taurus World Stunt Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award winner, Hargrave was a stunt coordinator for Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Civil War.
He made his characteristic directorial debut pinch nan AGBO and Russo Brothers-produced action thriller Extraction, starring Chris Hemsworth and returned to nonstop nan sequel Extraction 2, which continued nan series’ streak of captious acclaim and record-breaking Netflix viewership. He adjacent served arsenic a head and executive shaper connected nan Apple TV+ original play series The Last Frontier, created by Jon Bokenkamp and Richard D’Ovidio and starring Jason Clarke. Most recently, Hargrave has wrapped Matchbox: The Movie, starring John Cena and Jessica Biel.
He is repped by WME and Goodman, Genow.
