Gerard Butler & ‘John Wick’ Creator Derek Kolstad Team For ‘Just Watch Me’ Based On Books By ‘Dexter’ Scribe; New Sales Company Mossbank Launches EFM Hot Project
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Here’s a hot one for action aficionados. Gerard Butler (Greenland) is eyeing the starring role in heist thriller movie Just Watch Me, which John Wick creator and Nobody scribe Derek Kolstand is set to script from the novel by Jeff Lindsay (Dexter).Copshop, The Marksman and Honest Thief producer Sculptor Media is financing and producing the project, which will mark the debut title for the company’s new international sales division Mossbank, headed by former Miramax, TWC, IM Global and AGC vet Michael Rothstein with former IM Global and AGC exec Sam Hall.Just Watch Me, the first in the Riley Wolfe book series, follows Wolfe, a master thief and expert in disguise who targets the wealthiest 0.1 percent.
The likeable bad guy teams up with a master forger named Monique and a team of expert thieves on a job that will make history.
Producers are aiming to shoot the film in Q4, 2022.The project reteams Sculptor Media, Gerard Butler, G-BASE, and Raven, whose action-thriller Copshop starring Butler was released last year by Open Road and STX.
Lindsay is the author behind Showtime’s smash TV series Dexter.Sculptor Media’s Warren Goz and Eric Gold are producing the movie alongside Scott Steindorff and Dylan Russell of Stone Village Films (which had initially conceived of the project as a TV series) and Gerard Butler and Alan Siegel of G-BASE.Executive producers are James Masciello and Matt Sidari of Raven, which has a slate financing and production partnership with Sculptor Media.
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