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EXCLUSIVE: Miles Teller (Michael) has inked a woody to prima in Copperhead, a caller thriller from King Ivory helmer John Swab and Black Label Media.
Written by Chad Feehan and J. Todd Scott, Copperhead‘s crippled is thrust successful mobility erstwhile an undercover supplier woody explodes into unit successful West Texas. A seasoned detective is past forced to squad pinch a young national supplier to unravel nan conspiracy wrong their elite task force.
Black Label is financing and producing alongside Teller’s Lime Tree Productions and Swab’s Milk Boy, pinch accumulation to footwear disconnected successful August.
Most precocious seen playing John Branca, organizer of nan Michael Jackson estate, successful Antoine Fuqua’s Michael, which shattered opening-weekend records pinch a $217 cardinal worldwide debut and is nearing $900M worldwide, Teller will adjacent beryllium seen starring alongside Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson successful James Gray’s Paper Tiger, which premiered to captious acclaim astatine Cannes and will beryllium released by Neon. He is repped by CAA and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman.
Swab is champion known for penning and directing nan action thriller King Ivory, starring James Badge Dale, which premiered astatine nan 81st Venice Film Festival. Currently, he’s attached to nonstop nan Will Smith starrer Fast & Loose for Netflix, pinch Jerry Bruckheimer producing. Upcoming, he besides intends to nonstop a Hells Angels screenplay for actor/producer Jason Momoa, arsenic good arsenic his original script Night Work, which Netflix bought for Mark Wahlberg to prima and produce, on pinch Alex Heineman and Andrew Rona. Swab is repped by WME, Range Media Partners and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
Black Label Media is known for projects for illustration Lynne Ramsay’s Cannes drama Die My Love, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson, arsenic good as Sicario, I Wanna Dance pinch Somebody, Only nan Brave, and others. Next up, nan institution will reteam pinch J.D. Dillard — head of nan Korean War naval serviceman flick Devotion — for The Strange, which has casting underway. They’re besides gearing up on Reenactment — marking a reunion with Reptile filmmaker Grant Singer — arsenic good as Sicario 3.
Feehan is repped by CAA, Untitled Entertainment, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman; his co-writer Scott by Rain, Curtis Brown, and Fuse Literary.
