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Oscar-nominated cinematographer Rachel Morrison ’s feature directorial debut Flint Strong has moved from Universal to MGM , with Brian Tyree Henry ( Atlanta ) coming aboard to star, Deadline can confirm. Henry joins an ensemble that also includes Ryan Destiny and Oluniké Adeliyi, as previously announced. The film will continue shooting next week in Toronto following a prolonged shutdown precipitated by the Covid pandemic. Henry takes over the role initially to have been played by Ice Cube, who worked on the project for just two days back in March of 2020, before production was indefinitely delayed. Flint Strong is a boxing drama based on Zackary Canepari and Drea Cooper’s 2015 documentary, T-Rex . It will tell the true story of Claressa “T-REX” Shields (Destiny), a 17-year-old Flint, Michigan native whose dreams of becoming the first woman in history to win an Olympic gold medal in boxing came to fruition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Adeliyi is … [Read more...] about Brian Tyree Henry Boards ‘Flint Strong’, From Oscar Nom Rachel Morrison, As Project Moves From Universal To MGM

Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Smoczynska ( The Lure, Fugue) makes her English-language debut with The Silent Twins , the strange and remarkable story of June and Jennifer Gibbons, twin sisters who only communicated with each other from 8 to later-teen years when drugs and drinking led to petty theft and an arson charge that landed them in the tightly secured medical ward of Broadmoor for 11 years before being released in the 1980s. Creating their own puppetry and dolls, poems and music, which they only broadcast for each other on a fake radio program, the “twinnies” as they were called by family fell into an odd void that became more pronounced, even when they were forced to go to separate schools at one point. And they carried on this way until becoming young women landing and in legal trouble until incredibly being incarcerated for over a decade, five or six times as long as the longest sentence for the petty crimes of which they were accused. In knockout performances, … [Read more...] about Cannes Review: Letitia Wright In ‘The Silent Twins’

Apple TV + is prepping Speed Racer , a high-profile live-action series from J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot and Warner Bros. Television where the company is under a deal. Details are sketchy but I hear the project, written by Hiram Martinez ( Snowpiercer) and Ron Fitzgerald (Westworld ), is going back to the original source material and is a live-action take on the classic 1960s manga series. 2022 Apple TV+ Pilots & Series Orders I hear the series is now staffing a writers room, with Martinez and Fitzgerald as executive producers/co-showrunners. Speed Racer , a Japanese media franchise about automobile racing, first launched as a manga series titled Mach GoGoGo by Tatsuo Yoshida in 1966. Trans-Lux acquired syndication rights and Speed Racer was adapted into anime by Tatsunoko Productions, which aired on Japan’s Fuji TV from 1967-68 and aired in the U.S. in syndication at about the same time. The show’s mainstream success in the U.S. spawned an ongoing Speed … [Read more...] about ‘Speed Racer’ Live-Action TV Series From Bad Robot Ordered By Apple TV+