EXCLUSIVE: Mel Gibson is returning to the director’s chair for the first time since 2016 Oscar winner Hacksaw Ridge with movie Flight Risk, which will star Oscar nominee Mark Wahlberg.
Lionsgate, which was also behind Hacksaw Ridge, is launching world sales on the hot package ahead of the Cannes market. The film will see Wahlberg play a pilot transporting a dangerous criminal for trial.
Additional casting is underway. Pic is based on Jared Rosenberg’s 2020 Blacklist script. The movie will mark a re-team for Gibson and Wahlberg after they starred last year in box office hit Father Stu.
Oscar-winning Braveheart filmmaker Gibson has directed five films over a thirty year span, with each one hitting at the box office.
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