Dwayne Johnson & Chris Evans Prime Video Holiday Pic ‘Red One’ Adds Nick Kroll, Kristofer Hivju, Wesley Kimmel & Mary Elizabeth Ellis
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: In the wake of Dwayne Johnson notching the highest opening of his solo star career with this weekend’s Black Adam at $67M, his holiday movie, currently titled Red One, is ramping up with additional castings: Deadline has learned that Nick Kroll, Kristofer Hivju, Wesley Kimmel and Mary Elizabeth Ellis are joining.
They board alongside not just Johnson, but also Chris Evans, Lucy Liu, and Kiernan Shipka. The pic’s plot is under wraps, however, the event film is looking to be a franchisable piece of IP which will extend to the tentacles of Amazon itself in merchandising.
Jake Kasdan, who helmed Johnson in the last two Jumanji movies, is directing off a script by Chris Morgan. The project was won by Prime in a bidding war and was developed off an original story by Seven Bucks President of Production, Hiram Garcia.
Morgan has also been a frequent collaborator with Seven Bucks Productions on titles such as Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw, The Fate of the Furious, Furious 7, Fast & Furious 6, and Fast Five.
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