Netflix and Alan Ritchson have struck a first-look feature deal through his Dancing Skeleton banner, Deadline reported, with an untitled heist thriller set in the MotoGP world as their first project, scripted by Chris Morgan.
Details:
- The plot: A crew of motorcycle thieves steals priceless antiquities; Interpol recruits a former MotoGP prodigy, played by Ritchson, who suspects the ringleader may be his brother, long believed dead.
- The producers: Joe Roth and Jeff Kirschenbaum of RK Films join Morgan and Ainsley Morgan on the project.
- The pitch: The team described it as ‘Fast & Furious with motorcycles,’ drawing on Morgan’s history writing seven Fast & Furious films.
- The backing: MotoGP has signed on to consult on the film’s development.
- The numbers: Ritchson’s ‘War Machine’ logged 139.9 million views in its first 91 days after its March release, ranking No. 10 on Netflix’s most-popular movies list.
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Ritchson is also set to star in Jaume Collet-Serra’s ‘Maelstrom’ and an untitled Netflix survival competition series with Bunim/Murray Productions.
Source: Deadline
