EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Ashley Avis (Black Beauty) has been tapped to write and direct the romance City of Angels, based on Wim Wenders’ 1987 classic City of Angels, for Warner Bros, Perez Pictures and Atlas Entertainment.
This reimagining of Wenders’ romantic fantasy, which won him the Cannes Film Festival’s prize for Best Director, will follow the journey of a guardian angel who falls in love with a mortal man, a lonely jazz musician in Manhattan she is tasked to guide.
It’s the second remake titled City of Angels to emerge from Warner Bros on the heels of Brad Silberling’s 1998 film, starring Nicolas Cage and Meg Ryan, which grossed over $198M worldwide.
Atlas Entertainment’s Charles Roven (Uncharted, American Hustle) produced that pic and will also produce the new take alongside Rebecca Steel Roven Oakley (Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman 1984), as well as Paul Perez (Warner Bros/HBO Max’s Father of the Bride) for Perez Pictures. “I am honored, and deeply excited, to bring this stunning love story to life through a poetic new lens, alongside distinguished producers in Charles, Rebecca, and Paul,” Avis told Deadline. “Working with Warner Bros.
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