The gears are turning for David Leitch.
The Fall Man director is in negotiations to helm Gears of Struggle, Netflix’s big-budget adaptation of one of many greatest online game franchises on the Xbox platform.
Jon Spaihts, who’s working with Denis Villeneuve on adapting Frank Herbert’s Dune books for Legendary, is writing the script for the characteristic for which Netflix has partnered with The Coalition Studio, the Canadian sport developer behind the franchise.
Leitch and his spouse and producing companion Kelly McCormick will produce the characteristic through their 87North banner together with The Coalition.
Netflix had no touch upon the dealmaking.
The sport is ready on a planet getting ready to societal collapse when a monstrous menace within the type of underground creatures often called the Locust take humanity to the verge of extinction. Delta Squad, a ragtag fireteam led by disgraced sergeant Marcus Fenix, is now charged with main humanity’s final stand.
Netflix picked up the rights to the favored online game franchise in November 2022 with grand ambitions. It hopes to first adapt the sport as a characteristic, then comply with that up with an grownup animated collection. Extra work would comply with in success.
Popping out of the stunt world, Leitch is slowly crafting a wide-ranging resume at the same time as he stays within the motion lane. Fall Man, starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, was a kiss to the stunt and moviemaking group. The Brad Pitt-led Bullet Practice was a contained, twisty murderer thriller, whereas Quick and Livid Presents: Hobbs and Shaw was a franchise play. Additionally on his record are comedian e-book film Deadpool 2 and interval spy thriller Atomic Blonde.
Leitch is now in prep on Easy methods to Rob a Financial institution, a heist thriller for Amazon MGM that can star Nicholas Hoult and Anna Sawai.
He’s repped by CAA and Johnson Shapiro.