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EXCLUSIVE: Mason Thames has signed connected for a domiciled successful Lionsgate’s John Wick spinoff Caine, directed by and starring martial arts maestro and nan franchise’s actor Donnie Yen.
Thames joins Yen and Rina Sawayama, who will besides reprise her domiciled arsenic Akira, and Dacre Montgomery, antecedently announced. Caine will beryllium shaped by Yen’s signature attack to action filmmaking, blending precision choreography pinch affectional storytelling, an improvement of nan style he pioneered successful films specified as Ip Man, Flash Point, and Hero.
Thames’s domiciled and nan logline are being kept nether wraps. The caller movie will proceed Yen’s communicative arc pursuing nan events of John Wick: Chapter 4, arsenic Caine has been freed from his obligations to The High Table.
The movie is now successful production, produced and creatively overseen by John Wick franchise producers Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee (John Wick: Chapters 1 through 4, Ballerina) done their Thunder Road shingle, and Chad Stahelski (John Wick: Chapter 3—Parabellum, John Wick: Chapter 4, Ballerina), who produces done his 87Eleven Entertainment accumulation banner. John Wick star Keanu Reeves will besides nutrient pinch John Saunders. Yen will besides service arsenic an executive shaper connected nan project, arsenic will Courtney Brock.
The screenplay is by Mattson Tomlin, writer of nan upcoming The Batman Part II and nan adjustment of nan Reeves-created comic book BRZRKR, and Michael McGrale.
Thames precocious wrapped accumulation on How to Train Your Dragon 2, nan live-action adjustment of nan animated movie and sequel to nan deed live-action blockbuster. He will adjacent beryllium seen starring successful nan Green Day inspired film Nimrods, and Macon Blair’s feature Idiots alongside Dave Franco and O’Shea Jackson Jr. Also prima of the Black Phone franchise, he is represented by WME, Brillstein Entertainment Partners, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher.
