Paramount Sets 1980s Action Thriller ‘Bella’ With Samara Weaving
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures is developing the action thriller Bella with Scream VI actress Samara Weaving set to star in the Larysa Kondracki directed title.
Craig Flores is producing via Bread & Circuses Entertainment and Chad Stahleski is producing through his 87Eleven. Jason Spitz and Alex Young are executive producing via 87Eleven.
Jesse Wigutow is writing based on Jason Markarian’s script. Set against the backdrop of an unprecedented crime wave that gripped New York City in the 80’s, Bella is a hyper-stylized action thriller about a cop’s daughter who, after her father clings to life following an assassination attempt, goes on a rampage to unearth her father’s assassin and weed out deep-rooted corruption in the New York City Police Department.
Flores tells Deadline, “Bella cleverly reinvents the female-lead action genre pairing a sexy and unapologetic rock n’ roll edge with the gritty heightened realism of 80’s New York City.
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