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Amazon MGM Studios goes again for superhero seconds.
The streamer is growing a sequel to Samaritan, its 2022 motion film starring Sylvester Stallone, and has employed Bragi F. Schut to pen the script. Schut additionally penned the primary film.
Stallone is returning as producer, as is his Balboa Productions companion Braden Aftergood. Stallone can also be reprising his starring position with a deal made previous to the actors strike.
Samaritan, directed by Julius Avery, tells of a younger boy who’s saved from a beating by a sanitation employee. The boy involves consider that the older man is a superhero who disappeared 20 years earlier after an epic battle together with his archenemies. The film, which premiered completely on Prime Video on Aug. 26, 2022 in additional than 240 international locations and territories worldwide, outperformed for the corporate and was the primary movie on the service for 3 consecutive weeks, in keeping with Amazon.
Schut wrote the primary script on spec. It gathered curiosity from a number of manufacturing outlets earlier than being arrange by Balboa and MGM. Schut will act as government producer together with Adam Rosenberg.
If the sequel to Samaritan does take off, it could mark the second authentic franchise for the scribe. Schut wrote the 2019 Sony thriller Escape Room, which additionally had a sequel.
Schut additionally was the unique author of The Final Voyage of the Demeter, which took a 20-year journey from spec script to the display and was launched by Common this previous summer season. The unique horror thriller starred David Dastmalchian. He additionally labored on a Dungeons & Dragons tv pilot for eOne and Hasbro.
Schut is repped by Verve, administration agency Realm, and lawyer Rob Szymanski.
Sequel to Sylvester Stallone Film within the Works – The Hollywood Reporter
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