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EXCLUSIVE: We tin show you first that Lionsgate has acquired Ride aliases Die, a romanticist buddy action-comedy pinch Marlon Wayans and Keke Palmer attached to star.
The characteristic task centers connected robbery detective Martin Banks (Wayans), a consummate professional, and narcotics detective and unapologetic butt-kicker Tami Moore (Palmer). Sparks and bullets alert erstwhile these opposites are collaborated to way down a billion-dollar cache of deadly opioids stolen from nan vault of a multinational pharmaceutical institution that frighten to flood nan streets of Chicago.
Wayans describes nan film, which is being billed arsenic nan first romanticist buddy-cop action comedy, as When Harry Met Sally with guns.
Wayans wrote nan screenplay pinch Rick Alvarez. Pic will beryllium produced by Wayans and Alvarez done their company, Ugly Baby and by Neal H. Moritz and Toby Ascher, done Moritz’s Original Film. Keke Palmer and her mother, Sharon Palmer, are besides successful talks to EP.
Scott O’Brien is overseeing nan task for Lionsgate. Robert Melnik negotiated nan deals for nan studio.
Wayans astir precocious starred in Him, produced by Jordan Peele, and upcoming, stars alongside his chap original castmates successful nan highly anticipated Scary Movie, which he besides wrote and produced on pinch Rick Alvarez. The character is repped by 3 Arts, UTA, and Yorn, Levine. Alvarez is repped by 3 Arts, UTA, and Yorn, Levine.
Palmer’s latest movie, I Love Boosters, just made its world premiere astatine SXSW. That Boots Riley directed drama comes retired complete Memorial Day weekend. Palmer stars successful Peacock’s drama bid The Burbs. Palmer was precocious honored arsenic nan NAACP’s Entertainer of nan Year. Coming retired is MGM’s Spaceballs 2. She starred in One of Them Days, Nope from Jordan Peele, Good Fortune directed by Aziz Ansari, and Amazon’s The Pickup, alongside Eddie Murphy and Pete Davidson. She is a 2023 Emmy victor for NBC’s Password with Jimmy Fallon and hosts nan award-winning podcast Baby, This Is Keke Palmer for Wondery. Palmer is represented by 3 Arts and Hertz Lichtenstein Young & Polk, LLP.
Original Film is now successful accumulation on Highlander with head Chad Stahelski, and on Sonic nan Hedgehog 4. The institution besides has nan feature Beach Read for 20th Century, and a live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for Paramount. In television, play 5 of The Boys will premiere adjacent week, and nan institution is successful post-production connected nan spinoff show S.W.A.T. Exiles, pinch God of nan Woods group to commencement this summertime for Netflix.
