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Warner Bros. Pictures has tapped Mary-Margaret Kunze and Jade Halley Bartlett to constitute nan movie reimagining of Free Willy that nan workplace has successful nan useful pinch nan Russo brothers’ AGBO.
The first Free Willy movie was released by Warner Bros. Pictures successful 1993, launching a franchise of movies astir nan beloved orca whale that swam into theaters arsenic good arsenic an animated tv series. There was besides a direct-to-video continuation.
AGBO’s Angela Russo-Otstot, Michael Disco and Kassee Whiting will nutrient nan project, pinch executive producers including Anthony Russo & Joe Russo, and Lauren Shuler Donner. Courtney Baker will co-produce.
Kunze and Bartlett are imaginative partners who together helm Biscuit Belly Productions. Bartlett made her directorial debut connected Lionsgate’s Jenna Ortega-starrer Miller’s Girl (2024), which she wrote and directed pinch Kunze producing.
Jesse Ehrman and Cate Adams are overseeing for Warner Bros. Pictures.
Kunze astir precocious served arsenic a non-writing Co-Executive Producer on The Boroughs from The Duffer Brothers’ Upside Pictures and Netflix. In 2021, she was a non-writing executive shaper on A House connected nan Bayou(Epix) and The Thing About Pam (NBC), some pinch Blumhouse Television. Previously, she was a imaginative executive astatine Marvel Television and a co-producer on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (ABC), Cloak & Dagger (Freeform), Daredevil (Netflix), and The Runaways (Hulu).
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Bartlett is simply a screenwriter, director, and shaper from Memphis, Tennessee. She landed connected The Black List successful consecutive years with Miller’s Girl in 2016, adapted from her original play, and MAD in 2017, based connected Chloe Esposito’s novel. Most recently, she created nan Netflix series Icebreaker, based connected nan caller by Hannah Grace.
Kunze is repped by CAA and Henry Huang astatine Heroes & Villains Entertainment. Bartlett is repped by UTA and Henry Hunag astatine Heroes & Villains Entertainment.
