EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate has snapped up rights to Three Hitmen and a Child, an motion comedy spec from Dave Matalon (Completely Killer) and Matt Altman (Purple Widow), Deadline can completely reveal.
Pic’s logline is being stored beneath wraps, although its title clearly riffs on the traditional 1987 comedy Three Males and a Child, starring Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, and Ted Danson, about three bachelors whose lives change perpetually when a child out of the blue seems on their doorstep. Kelly McCormick and David Leitch (The Fall Man, Bullet Practice) will produce by means of their firm 87North, for whom Max Jacoby is overseeing the challenge. Meredith Wieck and Jon Humphrey are overseeing for Lionsgate.
Screenwriter Matalon most not too long ago co-wrote the slasher comedy Completely Killer! for Blumhouse and Amazon, which headlined Prime Video’s Halloween season final 12 months. As we first reported, his sci-fi motion script Stage Up, additionally written with Altman, is in growth with The Hideaway and Vandal Leisure. Beforehand promoting his script The Communion Letters to Syfy/UCP, he’s additionally the creator of the ebook The Concise Information to Sounding Sensible at Events, revealed by Random Home.
Altman offered his female-driven motion revenge thriller Purple Widow to STX in a bidding battle, additionally seeing the script make the 2016 Hit Checklist. He then tailored a YA novel for Lionsgate/Summit and Alloy Leisure, offered his motion function Locked & Loaded to Solstice Leisure, and produced horror movie, Feed the Satan, which he co-wrote with director Max Perrier.
At present in its tenth 12 months in operation, the action-oriented 87North is without doubt one of the firms behind the John Wick franchise and has additionally produced titles like The Fall Man, Bullet Practice and Atomic Blonde, helmed by firm principal Leitch, together with Nobody, Jamie Foxx vampire pic Day Shift, R-rated vacation comedy Violent Night time starring David Harbour, and extra. Subsequent set to launch Ke Huy Quan-fronted motion comedy Love Hurts by way of Common on February 7, their slate for subsequent 12 months additionally consists of the female-driven John Wick spin-off Ballerina and No person 2, with Bob Odenkirk again in motion.
Matalon is repped by Paradigm, Gotham Group, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller; Altman by Parallax Expertise Administration and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman; and 87North by CAA and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole.
