Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: After a heated auction, Universal Pictures has landed a package for an untitled drama that has David Leitch directing Ryan Gosling.
Drew Pearce, who wrote for Universal the Leitch-directed hit Fast and Furious spinoff Hobbs & Shaw, is set to write the script.
The deal is seven figures.Guymon Casady is producing through Entertainment 360, along with Gosling producing through his company and Leitch and his 87North partner Kelly McCormick.
Several other studios also were in the mix including Netflix, Paramount and MGM. Universal has a strong relationship with Leitch and McCormick, whose 87North is in a first-look deal there.
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