Disney Picks Up Action-Comedy Blowback
Source: Variety
August 3, 2005
Walt Disney Pictures has bought Blowback, an original action-comedy pitch, from screenwriter Sheldon Turner, with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Ryan Reynolds attached to star. Variety says Turner will write the script.
Johnson was last seen in Be Cool and is toplining Doom, coming to theates on October 21. He is currently shooting Sony's Gridiron Gang.
Reynolds co-starred in Blade: Trinity and The Amityville Horror. He next will be seen in Lions Gate Films' Waiting and New Line Cinema's Just Friends.
Turner will also write the "X-Men" spinoff Magneto and an adaptation of Kim Wozencraft's novel Wanted for Plan B.
Source: Variety
August 3, 2005
Walt Disney Pictures has bought Blowback, an original action-comedy pitch, from screenwriter Sheldon Turner, with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Ryan Reynolds attached to star. Variety says Turner will write the script.
Johnson was last seen in Be Cool and is toplining Doom, coming to theates on October 21. He is currently shooting Sony's Gridiron Gang.
Reynolds co-starred in Blade: Trinity and The Amityville Horror. He next will be seen in Lions Gate Films' Waiting and New Line Cinema's Just Friends.
Turner will also write the "X-Men" spinoff Magneto and an adaptation of Kim Wozencraft's novel Wanted for Plan B.
