EXCLUSIVE: In a preemptive buy, Amazon Studios Prime Video has taken Justin Chon’s next movie, Night Riders, off the table.
The Blue Bayou filmmaker is also writing the movie, which is set in a near-future Hawaii. The pic is billed as a gritty crime thriller about two friends whose brotherly bond is tested when one is prepared to further cross moral and ethical lines in their ascent to power.
The pic is based on an original idea by Chon. Chon is producing with Sister’s Stacey Snider. Chon is currently directing and executive producing the pilot episode of the Jason Momoa led Apple series Chief of War.
He wrote, directed, and starred in Blue Bayou, which also starred Alicia Vikander, Mark O’Brien, Linh Dan Pham, and Emory Cohen.
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