\n\tA hot action movie package is coming together at Netflix, multiple sources told Variety, one roughly 33 years in the making.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cReacher\u201d and \u201cWar Machine\u201d star Alan Ritchson<\/a> is in negotiations\u00a0to topline \u201cMaelstrom,\u201d a spec originally sold to Warner Bros. in 1993 by prolific producer Jeff Robinov<\/a> when he was an agent. Jaume Collet-Serra<\/a>, helmer of Netflix\u2019s top-rated original film\u00a0\u201cCarry-On,\u201d will direct.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tThe film follows\u00a0a\u00a0Federal Marshall\u00a0guarding the fianc\u00e9e of an arms dealer seeking witness protection. Events unfold over the course of one evening as a hurricane rolls in, blocking outside communication and preventing reinforcements from arriving. Together they must fight to survive the onslaught of men working for the arms dealer, as well as the escalating elements of the natural disaster raging outside.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tScreenwriter Mark Bianculli (\u201cHow to Rob a Bank\u201d) was tapped to refresh the script and modernize its characters, from a first draft by late writer Gregory Fitzpatrick. The project will be the first big offering in Robinov\u2019s Netflix\u2019s deal, which he\u2019ll produce with Tabitha Shick and Talking Pictures. The former president of Warner Bros. Pictures has shepherded billion-dollar franchises like \u201cThe Dark Knight\u201d trilogy and \u201cThe Hangover\u201d films.<\/p>\n \n\tAt Netflix, \u201cMaelstrom\u201d found a path back to the screen thanks to the success of \u201cCarry-On.\u201d That Jason Bateman title spent 11 years dormant before Netflix\u2019s Ori Marmur dusted it off and attached big talent, including director Collet-Serra, sending it to the third most viewed film of all time at the streamer. Marmur and team subsequently put a call out to top producers for their best unmade projects with high-concept hooks, reanimating \u201cMaelstrom\u201d with Netflix development executive Kira Cousineau.<\/p>\n \n\tReps for Ritchson and Collet-Serra had no immediate comment on the matter. A rep for Netflix declined to comment.<\/p>\n \n\tRitchson\u2019s profile has exploded since the advent of his hit Prime Video series \u201cReacher,\u201d where the tree-sized actor plays a retired military police officer on the run for a murder he didn\u2019t commit. He is repped by WME, Rich Cook at Range Media Partners, Shelter PR, and Hansen Jacobson Teller. Collet-Serra is repped by Scott Greenberg at LBI. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A hot action movie package is coming together at Netflix, multiple sources told Variety, one roughly 33 years…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[17863,93,61,60,31391,232891,270],"class_list":["post-549705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-alan-ritchson","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jaume-collet-serra","tag-jeff-robinov","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}