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EXCLUSIVE: In a competitory situation, Warner Bros. Pictures has won characteristic authorities to “A Daring Rescue Behind Enemy Lines,” a caller portion from The New York Times‘ The Daily, chronicling nan ngo to rescue a U.S. airman downed successful Iran.
Warner Bros. purchased authorities to nan communicative for Matt Reeves’ 6th & Idaho to produce, pinch Harrison Query adapting. Netflix and Anonymous Content were besides engaging to acquire, sources confirmed.
Published connected April 7th, pinch nationalist information analogous Eric Schmitt detailing nan events, nan portion from The New York Times explains really a high-stakes U.S. subject rescue cognition played retired successful Iran pursuing nan downing of an F-15E Strike Eagle combatant jet.
After being ejected, an airman spent hours evading seizure while injured, arsenic U.S. forces, assisted by nan CIA, executed connected a analyzable scheme to retrieve him from a remote, 7,000-foot ridge line.
One of nan astir successful request writers successful municipality astatine nan moment, Query has often been successful business of precocious pinch 6th & Idaho. Most recently, he group up nan action thriller spec Kill Switch at Netflix pinch Jake Gyllenhaal attached to star, arsenic we first reported. That task will besides beryllium produced by Gyllenhaal & Josh McLauglin’s Nine Stories banner and Scott Glassgold and his 12:01 Films, pinch Query arsenic EP. Prior to that, he sold nan governmental thriller short communicative “Code Black” to Amazon MGM, pinch Gyllenhaal again group to star, and nan triumvirate of 6th & Idaho, Nine Stories and 12:01 aboard to produce.
Soon, Query will spot nan merchandise of his Paramount+/101 Studios JonBenét Ramsey constricted bid Unspeakable, starring Melissa McCarthy and Clive Owen, which he co-created and exec produced. Up adjacent for him is nan Netflix/A24 bid Trigger Point, wherever he’s creator, showrunner and EP, that’s going this summer. Also readying is Drew Hancock’s Amazon MGM adjustment of his and relative Matt Query’s caller My Wife and I Bought a Ranch, based connected Matt’s supernatural scary communicative primitively published to Reddit. He is repped by CAA, Ground Control and Jeff Frankel.
6th & Idaho’s The Wrecking Crew, starring Jason Momoa and Dave Bautista, precocious topped world charts connected Prime Video. Readying nan Reeves-helmed The Batman Part II, nan company’s upcoming slate besides includes Clayface, Dynamic Duo for DC and Warner Bros. Pictures Animation, and more. They are repped by CAA and Karl Austen.
