MBC, the Saudi-owned Middle East TV giant, is to co-produce and co-finance the upcoming Gerard Butler action thriller Kandahar, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
While no figures were provided, Peter Smith, managing director of MBC's production arm MBC Studios, told THR that the company was making a "substantial investment" in the film.
First announced at the virtual Cannes market in 2020, Kandahar reunites Butler with his Angel Has Fallen and Greenland director Ric Roman Waugh, who directs from a screenplay he wrote with former military intelligence officer Mitchell LaFortune.
The film —based on LaFortune’s experiences at the Defense Intelligence Agency in Afghanistan at the time of the Edward Snowden leaks — will see Butler star as an.
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