The newest information coming in scorching is that Glen Powell, star of legacy sequels High Gun: Maverick and Twisters, not forgetting Edgar Wright’s upcoming adaptation of The Operating Man, has probably lined up one other mission that may deliver again a bygone basic (in a single type or one other). He’s reportedly set to star in an untitled film about Texas blazes from director Ron Howard, who coincidentally helmed Common’s 1991 firefighting characteristic, Backdraft, starring Kurt Russell as one of many two feuding brothers on the path of a serial arsonist.
The InSneider was the primary to report on the mission and whereas the preliminary particulars haven’t explicitly positioned it as a sequel to Backdraft, it actually followers the flames of the long-rumored follow-up to the close to 35-year-old action-thriller. Powell was linked to a Backdraft movie final 12 months, although that was stated to be within the works at Think about Leisure. The newly introduced film is ready up at Amazon MGM Studios after the studio preemptively acquired the unique pitch from The Flash author Christina Hodson, who’s penning the script and serving as an government producer. Nevertheless, Think about Leisure remains to be concerned as producers Howard, Brian Grazer, and Jeb Brody are onboard alongside Powell and Dan Cohen for Barnstorm.
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The story of the untitled firefighting film is alleged to observe “two disparate childhood associates who are actually completed firefighters and face a lethal sequence of Texas blazes whereas navigating their relationship.” It isn’t too dissimilar to the plot of Backdraft, which facilities on two Chicago firefighting brothers, Stephen (Russell) and Brian (William Baldwin), who’ve been rivals since childhood, however are pressured to beat their sibling competitiveness so as to crack a case revolving round a string of arson assaults. That movie was directed by Howard, who can also be main the way in which on the brand new characteristic that does not but have an official title.
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Supply: The InSneider, The Hollywood Reporter
Backdraft
- Launch Date
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Might 24, 1991
- Runtime
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132 minutes