Chris Evans to star reverse Dwayne Johnson in vacation action-comedy tentatively titled ‘Red One’

By ANI

WASHINGTON: Chris Evans will probably be becoming a member of Dwayne Johnson in an upcoming vacation occasion movie.

As per Deadline, the movie, which is at present titled ‘Red One’, goals to shoot this yr. It is a globe-trotting, four-quadrant action-adventure comedy imagining an entire new universe to discover throughout the vacation style. Plot specifics are below wraps.

The challenge stems from an unique story by Seven Bucks Productions’ President of Production Hiram Garcia that Amazon Studios landed after a aggressive bidding warfare final yr. Jake Kasdan (‘Jumanji’ franchise) is directing from a screenplay by Seven Bucks Productions’ frequent collaborator Chris Morgan, who beforehand labored with them on such titles as ‘Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw’, ‘The Fate of the Furious’, ‘Furious 7’, ‘Fast & Furious 6’ and ‘Fast Five’.

Kasdan is producing via his manufacturing firm The Detective Agency alongside Melvin Mar and co-producer Sky Salem Robinson, with Morgan for Chris Morgan Productions and Johnson, Hiram Garcia and Dany Garcia for Seven Bucks.

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According to Deadline, Johnson introduced his involvement with the title, slated for a 2023 vacation launch, again in June. While Johnson and Evans each appeared in Shawn Levy’s 2021 comedy ‘Free Guy’ for Disney, ‘Red One’ is the primary movie that the pair will topline collectively.

Evans is greatest identified for his flip as Steve Rogers (aka Super Soldier Captain America) within the Marvel movies ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’, ‘The Avengers’, ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’, ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’, ‘Ant-Man’, ‘Captain America: Civil War’, ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’, ‘Avengers: Infinity War’, ‘Captain Marvel’ and ‘Avengers: Endgame’. The actor will subsequent star within the Russo brothers’ movie ‘The Gray Man’ for Netflix, and because the voice of Buzz Lightyear in Pixar’s origin story ‘Lightyear’, which is about for launch within the US on June 17. He can be in growth on an untitled Gene Kelly challenge, which he’ll star in and produce, and is about to star within the upcoming Apple characteristic ‘Ghosted’.

Evans additionally lately appeared in Adam McKay’s end-of-the-world comedy ‘Don’t Look Up’ for Netflix, and in Mark Bomback’s Apple TV+ collection ‘Defending Jacob’, which noticed him portraying an assistant DA whose world was shattered when his son was charged with homicide.