EXCLUSIVE: Robert Lorenz (In The Land of Saints) is attached to nonstop Hardcourt, a caller characteristic written by Mark L. Smith (The Revenant).
Ehud Bleiberg is producing done his namesake banner, on pinch Ariel Bleiberg, Robert Deege, and Suzanne Lyons’ Snowfall Films. Production connected nan movie is group to statesman successful early 2027. Casting is said to beryllium underway. Bleiberg will grip worldwide income authorities and is presenting nan task astatine nan Cannes Market.
The task is described arsenic a psychological thriller successful nan vein of Gone Girl and Basic Instinct. The communicative follows a respected assemblage hoops coach who is accused of murdering his mistress.
The charismatic synopsis reads: “When his woman hires 1 of his erstwhile players and her ex-lover (now a apical attorney) to take sides her husband, aged rivalries and resentments aboveground connected nan way to get to nan bottommost of nan crime.”
Smith’s caller credits see nan George Clooney-directed Boys successful nan Boat and 2024’s Twisters. He was nan showrunner connected Netflix’s American Primeval, which he besides created. His upcoming projects see nan Ridley Scott-directed post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie The Dog Stars and nan Peter Berg-directed WWII era sports movie The Mosquito Bowl.
Lorenz is simply a predominant collaborator of Clint Eastwood. He was a shaper connected American Sniper, Letters From Iwo Jima, and Mystic River. He made his first foray into directing successful 2012 pinch The Trouble pinch nan Curve and went connected to nonstop nan thrillers The Marksman and In nan Land of Saints and Sinners, some starring Liam Neeson.