Dwayne Johnson-Led Vacation Movie Begins Manufacturing; Provides J.Ok. Simmons & Bonnie Hunt – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: The Dwayne Johnson reteam with Jumanji franchise filmmaker Jake Kasdan, beforehand titled Pink One at Prime Video, has began manufacturing, and Oscar winner J.Ok. Simmons and Emmy nominee Bonnie Hunt have boarded respectively as Santa and Mrs. Claus.

The four-quadrant vacation household movie, which has plans to be an in depth franchise movie with merchandising all through the Amazon universe, boasts a solid that features Chris Evans, Lucy Liu, Kiernan Shipka, Kristofer Hivju, Nick Kroll, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, and Wesley Kimmel. The screenplay by Quick & Livid scribe and producer Chris Morgan relies off an authentic story by Seven Bucks President of Manufacturing Hiram Garcia. Amazon Studios snapped up the undertaking in a aggressive bidding conflict. The undertaking will stream in additional than 240 nations and territories.

Producers are Hiram Garcia, Johnson, and Dany Garcia by way of Seven Bucks Productions; Kasdan and Melvin Mar by way of The Detective Company; Morgan by way of Chris Morgan Productions. EP is Ainsley Davies by way of Chris Morgan Productions. Co-producer is Sky Salem Robinson by way of The Detective Company.

Kasdan, Johnson and Seven Bucks Productions’ Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and Jumanji: The Subsequent Degree grossed a mixed $1.7 billion across the globe. Morgan has additionally been a frequent collaborator with Seven Bucks Productions on titles equivalent to Quick and Livid Presents: Hobbs and Shaw, The Destiny of the Livid, Livid 7, Quick & Livid 6, and Quick 5. Seven Bucks’ Johnson New Line/DC film Black Adam has been the No. 1 film on the planet for the final three weekends raking in near $320M.

Simmons was not too long ago Oscar-nominated for his function in Prime Video’s Being the Ricardos and beforehand gained an Academy Award, BAFTA, Movie Unbiased Spirit Award, Golden Globe, Display screen Actors Guild Award, amongst others, for his function in Sony Photos Classics’ Whiplash. Different current movie credit embody Spider-Man: No Means Residence, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Nationwide Champions, The Tomorrow Conflict, Warner Bros.’ Zack Snyder’s Justice League, and Hulu’s Palm Springs. On the tv aspect, Simmons can not too long ago be seen within the Prime Video collection Evening Sky, Invincible, and Goliath. He’s represented by Gersh.

On the tv aspect, Hunt wrote, govt produced, and served as showrunner on Apple TV+’s current adaptation of Paula Danziger’s Amber Brown books. She beforehand made tv historical past with CBS’s The Constructing, which made her the primary individual to create, write, produce, and star in a primetime tv collection. She additionally created Bonnie and Life with Bonnie, incomes her Golden Globe, Primetime Emmy, and Daytime Emmy Award nominations. In movie, she directed, wrote, and starred in Return to Me for MGM. A few of her different movie credit embody the voice of ‘Dolly’ in Disney’s Toy Story franchise, the voice of ‘Sally’ in Disney’s Vehicles franchise, and the voice of ‘Bonnie Hopps’ in Disney’s Zootopia. She is represented by WME.