Michael B. Jordan, Ryan Coogler’s “Genre” Film Bought By Warner Bros.
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Michael B. Jordan and Ryan Coogler’s secret film has found a home at Warner Bros.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, WB bought the movie, winning an exhaustive bidding war for the project against Sony and Universal.
Ryan Coogler penned the confidential flick’s script and will produce the project. Coogler’s wife, Zinzi Coogler, and Sev Ohanian will also produce the film through their Proximity Media production company. Rebecca Cho will executive produce the movie.
The Creed III star will play the leading man in the film, which has been described as “an original genre film.”
THR’s Borys Kit also reports that Coogler and Jordan’s joint flick will be an original concept based around vampires and “the undead + 1930s setting + anime influences.” Coogler and Jordan intend to begin shooting the project in April in New Orleans, the outlet reports. However, no other details surrounding the film are known.
The original concept is being kept secret but source say it's got the undead + 1930s setting + anime influences. https://t.co/ututATht4T
— Borys Kit (@Borys_Kit) February 8, 2024
Rayn Coogler and Michael B. Jordan have made box office magic together throughout their careers. The pair worked together on 2013’s Fruitvale Station, 2015’s Creed, 2018’s Black Panther, and 2022’s Black Panther II. According to Variety, all of the pair’s movies have collectively snagged over “$2.4 billion at the global box office.”
The men spoke to VIBE about their early success in 2014 after Fruitvale Station was released. The pair addressed the movie’s global box office performance, with Jordan discussing how unexpected it was to see a Black story resonate with audiences across differing languages and cultures.
“You never know how long the run [of a film’s success] is gonna be, how far the reach is gonna have, so the fact that it took us internationally, different walks of life, different languages and still being able to connect through the story of a human being, it speaks volumes of the project and all the work that we put in,” Michael B. said at the time.
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