John Cena Action Comedy Feature ‘Officer Exchange’ In The Works At Amazon Studios
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: We hear that Officer Exchange, a big action comedy project, just sold to Amazon Studios. Peacemaker and The Suicide Squad star John Cena is starring in a script by Ben Zazove and Evan Turner.
The project is currently in development.Cena will play Shepard “Shep,” a wrecking ball of a cop who teams up with an Indian police officer to take down a diamond smuggling ring in India.Peacemaker producers EP Peter Safran and producer John Rickard of The Safran Company are producing the project for Amazon.
Cena is executive producing.Zazove and Turner wrote the Netflix Happy Madison comedy movie The Out-Law which is in post production, that pic starring Pierce Brosnan, Michael Rooker, Adam Devine and Lil Rel Howery.
Zazove wrote Paramount’s Sherlock Gnomes. The Safran Company and Cena’s Peacemaker in its season one finale back in February scored the biggest single day viewership performance for an HBO Max series, 44% over its premiere.
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