EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins will team with Top Gun: Maverick’s Glen Powell in Locked, a remake of the Argentinian action thriller 4X4, for ZQ Entertainment and Raimi Productions.
David Yarovesky is set to direct. He and Sam Raimi collaborated recently on Nightbooks. Michael Arlen Ross (Oracle) wrote the script.
The original was written and directed by Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat (Official Competition). Locked is an intense, character-driven thriller about a thief who breaks into a luxury SUV, only to realize that he’s stumbled into a complex and deadly trap set by a mysterious figure.
CAA Media Finance reps the worldwide distribution rights and the project will be unveiled at the upcoming EFM. Powell, most recently seen as the highflying wingman opposite Tom Cruise and Miles Teller in Top Gun: Maverick, here will play the young thief who finds himself not in control of the stolen vehicle.
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