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EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures and 87North are processing Limited Edition, an action movie to prima nan Fast & Furious franchise’s Ludacris which has locked successful Novocaine helmers Dan Berk and Robert Olsen to constitute and direct.
Plot specifications are being kept nether wraps. But Kelly McCormick and David Leitch will nutrient done 87North’s first-look woody pinch Universal. Also producing and overseeing nan task for 87North is Braden Aftergood, who arsenic we exclusively reported successful December, conscionable precocious joined nan institution aft co-founding Sylvester Stallone’s Balboa.
Executive Vice President of Production Development Jay Polidoro and Director of Development Tony Ducret will oversee Limited Edition for nan studio.
A multi-platinum, Grammy-winning rapper and actor, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges is wide recognized for his domiciled arsenic Tej, a halfway personnel of Dominic Toretto’s (Vin Diesel) crew, successful Universal’s Fast & Furious franchise, 1 of nan astir successful action movie bid successful history. His different movie credits see nan Oscar-winning Crash, nan Oscar-nominated Hustle & Flow, and nan 2023 vacation drama Dashing Through nan Snow. In a profession spanning astir 3 decades, Ludacris has sold much than 20 cardinal albums, earned 3 Grammys, and secured 5 No. 1 singles connected nan Billboard Hot 100. His catalog includes 4 No. 1 albums connected nan Billboard 200, 56 Hot 100-charting singles, and 18 Top 10 records. He is repped by UTA, managers Chaka Zulu and Jeff Dixon of Ebony Son Entertainment, and lawyer Darrell Miller of Fox Rothschild.
Berk and Olsen are coming disconnected of Novocaine, nan inventive Jack Quaid-led action drama centered connected a man incapable of emotion pain, which garnered captious acclaim, opening astatine #1 astatine nan container agency successful March earlier moving connected to go a chart-topping streaming title. Prior to that, nan brace helmed Significant Other, a sci-fi thriller for Paramount starring Maika Monroe and Jake Lacy. Additionally, they wrote and directed Villains, a scary drama starring Monroe, Bill Skarsgård, Jeffery Donovan, and Kyra Sedgwick, which premiered to captious acclaim astatine SXSW successful 2019. The duo is repped by UTA, Kaplan Perrone, and Frankfurt Kurnit Klein + Selz.
Coming disconnected of nan films Love Hurts and Nobody 2, 87North’s upcoming slate besides includes projects for illustration nan Leitch-directed How to Rob a Bank, Violent Night 2, Ballerina Overdrive, and nan Jorma Taccone thriller Over Your Dead Body.
