A characteristic challenge starring Tom Holland and Austin Butler is revving up for Amazon MGM Studios.
The studio has landed a bundle for American Pace with the 2 actors connected to star. Charles Roven (Oppenheimer) is connected to supply although his banner Atlas Leisure, together with RD Whittington and Douglas Banker. Ryan Sanak serves as govt producer for Atlas Leisure.
Screenwriter Dan Wiedenhaupt is penning the script for the movie that’s primarily based on a real story. American Pace follows the three race car-driving Whittington brothers, two of whom had been concerned within the IMSA scandal within the Eighties that noticed quite a few drivers charged with funding their racing by means of cash from drug smuggling, tax evasion and laundering.
A director has not but been introduced, nor has a launch plan.
Holland has been busy of late, as he’ll star reverse Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan’s subsequent movie for Common Footage, set for launch in summer season of 2026. Holland additionally has Sony’s Spider-Man 4 hitting theaters that very same 12 months.
Butler’s forthcoming initiatives embrace Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing and Ari Aster’s Eddington. Butler beforehand appeared on this 12 months’s movies Dune: Half Two and The Bikeriders, and he was Oscar-nominated for his starring function in Elvis.
Holland is represented by WME, Shelter PR and Sloane Provide. Butler is repped by WME, Nameless Content material, Sloane Provide and the Lede Firm. Wiedenhaupt is repped by WME, Adam Kolbrenner at Lit Leisure Group and lawyer Jeff Frankel. Roven is repped by WME and lawyer Michael Schenkman.
Deadline was first to report on Amazon MGM Studios touchdown the bundle.
