Omar Sy & Kerry Washington Set To Star In Lionsgate Action-Thriller ‘Shadow Force’; Joe Carnahan Directing
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Lupin and Intouchables star Omar Sy will now co-star opposite Emmy winner Kerry Washington (Scandal, Django) in Lionsgate action-thriller Shadow Force, we can reveal.Bad Boys For Life scribe and The Grey director Joe Carnahan is newly aboard to direct the feature, which will follow an estranged couple with a bounty on their heads who must go on the run with their son to avoid their former employer, a shadow ops unit that has been sent to kill them.Screenplay comes from Leon Chills and Carnahan.
Producers are Stephen “Dr.” Love through his Made with Love Media company (which has an overall deal with Lionsgate), Kerry Washington and Pilar Savone through Washington’s production company Simpson Street, and Sterling K.
Brown (who was previously attached to star) through his Indian Meadows Productions.Executive producers are Kathy Atkinson, Indian Meadows’ Danielle Reardon and Jennifer Wiley-Stockton.
Lionsgate’s Robert Melnik negotiated the deals on behalf of the studio.Pic is being overseen at Lionsgate by Aaron Edmonds and Jorge Alfaro Silva.
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