Martial arts icon Iko Uwais (“The Raid,” “Mile 22,” “Expend4bles”) will headline hospital siege thriller “MRI,” with Liam O’Donnell (“Alphas”) set to direct. Daniel Baur’s K5 Intl. has acquired the worldwide gross sales rights to the image, which it would launch on the American Movie Market subsequent month.
O’Donnell will reunite with Uwais for his or her third function collectively after helming 2017’s “Past Skyline” and the anticipated “Skyline: Warpath.” The producers are Robust Island and Uwais Footage.
“Iko’s sheer charisma, soulful depth and insane work ethic makes him each director’s dream,” O’Donnell mentioned. “After such a terrific expertise with Robust Island on ‘Alphas,’ I felt ‘MRI’ could be the right challenge for us all to take issues to the subsequent stage.”
The plot facilities on a broken-down hitman (Uwais) with a shattered household and a busted knee, who undergoes a routine MRI when your complete hospital is taken over by ruthless gangsters. Now, he’s the one man who can rescue their goal, the daughter of a robust crime boss, and by some means save the day, one agonizing step at a time. The script was written by Russell Hainline (Netflix’s “Scorching Frosty”).
Robust Island’s Christopher Tuffin (“Freelance,” “Canary Black,” “Alphas”) will produce alongside Ryan Santoso for Uwais Footage. Baur for K5 Intl., Amanda Delaplaine and Chris Ochs will government produce.
“With the dominance of Asian-themed content material within the market, we really feel ‘MRI’ is an ardent throwback to the basic martial arts movies of the Seventies made for audiences born within the 2000s,” added Tuffin, whose current credit embody a string of field workplace and streaming hits together with “Peppermint,” “Canary Black,” “Freelance” and “Sound of Freedom,” in addition to such upcoming releases because the excessive seas actioner “Alphas” and the interval motion/thriller “The Butler,” starring Jean Reno and Tom Hollander.
Upcoming productions embody “Final Meals,” starring Mads Mikkelson and Boyd Holbrook for director Ramin Bahrani (“99 Houses”).
Principal images is anticipated to start out in Jakarta early subsequent yr.
Finest identified for his martial arts prowess within the motion films “The Raid,” “The Raid 2” and “The Night time Comes for Us,” Uwais has not too long ago expanded his attain, from creating motion choreography outfit Uwais Staff, to constructing his personal manufacturing firm Uwais Footage with Santoso. Their first image “Ikatan Darah” premiered the opening night time of Improbable Fest to robust opinions with Uwais’ directorial debut “Timur” set to premiere Dec. 18 in Indonesia.
Uwais is repped by Gersh and Vault Leisure. O’Donnell is repped by Robust Island, Sentient Leisure, Revolutionary Artists Leisure and Miloknay Weiner. Hainline is repped Recreation Plan Media.
