Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kraven The Hunter, Bullet Practice, Nocturnal Animals) is about to reunite with director David Mackenzie because the star of upcoming heist thriller Fuze.
The pair beforehand labored collectively on Mackenzie’s 2018 Robert the Bruce drama Outlaw King, which adopted heist drama Hell or Excessive Water.
Written by Ben Hopkins, Fuze opens on the invention of an unexploded World Conflict II bomb in a London building website, sparking a mass evacuation, which the serves as excellent cowl for a heist.
‘I had the concept of mixing all of the excessive stakes of an unexploded bomb with that of a financial institution theft – clashing these two genres to create as a lot strain as attainable in a context that feels as actual as attainable. Ben Hopkins took these substances and cooked up the compelling script that we at the moment are taking into manufacturing,” mentioned Mackenzie.
The movie is produced by Gillian Berrie (Outlaw King, Tetris) for Sigma Movies and Sebastien Raybaud (The Finish We Begin From, Greenland) and Callum Grant (Jackdaw, Cleaner) for Anton.
Giles Nuttgens joins Mackenzie’s artistic workforce as director of pictures after beforehand collaborating collectively on Hell or Excessive Water.
’Collectively David Mackenzie and DP, Giles Nuttgens are dynamos. Simply add Aaron Taylor-Johnson and now we have the Midas contact for this whirlwind film,” mentioned Berrie.
Anton is financing and can be promoting the world rights on the upcoming European Movie Market in Berlin and can current a sizzle reel for the movie.
David is uniquely proficient at pairing large-scale filmmaking with actually distinctive characters. FUZE melds the relentless rigidity of a bomb film to the heist style,” mentioned Anton’s Raybaud and Grant.
UTA Impartial Movie Group and WME Impartial will co-rep the US rights with Anton.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson is repped by Brillstein Leisure Companions, WME and Sloane, Provide, Weber and Dern, LLP. David Mackenzie is repped by UTA, United Brokers in London, and Alan Wertheimer and Kim Jaime. Gillian Berrie is repped by UTA, United Brokers in London, and Alan Wertheimer and Kim Jaime. Giles Nuttgens is repped by UTA.
