MGM Remaking German Sensation ‘System Crasher’ With Channing Tatum To Star; His Free Association Producing With The Picture Company
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: MGM has acquired the rights to remake the acclaimed German film System Crasher. Channing Tatum will star and Free Association will produce along with The Picture Company.
Deal comes as MGM and United Artists Releasing today bows Dog, the comedy that Tatum and Reid Carolin co-directed a script by Carolin and Brett Rodriguez.Tatum will produce System Crasher along with his Free Association partners Reid Carolin & Peter Kiernan, with Michael Parets overseeing.
The project will be a co-production with The Picture Company, whose partners Alex Heineman & Andrew Rona are also producing.Free Association’s Garret Levitz will write the script.
The rights were pursued by The Picture Company and Free Association. Together they brought the package to MGM, where Free Association has a newly minted overall deal.The original German film revolves around a young girl with a traumatic past.
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