Channing Tatum Groups With David Leitch On Thriller ‘Redshirt’ – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: Right here’s one other star-studded package deal making the rounds previous to the Thanksgiving break. Deadline is listening to Channing Tatum is hooked up to star within the spy thriller Purple Shirt, which is predicated on an authentic pitch from Simon Kinberg with David Leitch directing.

Particulars are obscure apart from it being a brand new spin on James Bond that has franchise potential. Kelly McCormick and David Leitch are producing underneath their 87 North manufacturing banner; Tatum is producing via his firm, Free Affiliation and Kinberg is producing via his Style Movies. The package deal has already hit the market with a number of studios submitting affords and looks like one thing that might promote massive earlier than Thanksgiving vacation.

Tatum is having himself fairly the yr with two massive hits in MGM’s Canine adopted by Paramount’s The Misplaced Metropolis. Each movies hit massive on the box-office with Misplaced Metropolis grossing near $200 million globally and Canine grossing $84 million on a $15 million price range. He might be seen subsequent in Magic Mike’s Final Dance.

Leitch is coming off his summer season box-office hit Bullet Practice starring Brad Pitt which went on to gross $240 million on the worldwide box-office. He’s about to begin taking pictures The Fall Man starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt.

Kinberg is at the moment in manufacturing on his Apple TV+ sequence Sugar starring Colin Farrell and can also be creating a brand new Battlestar Galactica film.

Tatum is represented by CAA and Jacobson, Teller; 87 North are represented by CAA and Johnson Shapiro Slewett & Kole; Kinberg is represented by CAA and Jackoway Tyerman.