Channing Tatum to star in David Leitch spy thriller Purple Shirt

Motion maestro David Leitch has one other venture on his slate, as Deadline has reported that he’s set to direct Channing Tatum in Purple Shirt, a spy thriller primarily based on an unique pitch from Simon Kinberg,

Though the title positively makes me consider Star Trek, there aren’t many particulars about Purple Shirt aside from it’s a “new spin on James Bond” and has “franchise potential.” David Leitch and Kelly McCormick are producing below their 87 North manufacturing banner, with Channing Tatum producing by his Free Affiliation banner and Simon Kinberg producing by his Style Movies banner. The package deal has already attracted gives from a number of studios which are sizzling on the idea.

Channing Tatum will subsequent be seen in Magic Mike’s Final Dance, the third installment of the unlikely blockbuster franchise. Tatum returns as Mike Lane, who takes to the stage once more after a prolonged hiatus following a enterprise deal that went bust, leaving him broke and taking bartending gigs in Florida. For what he hopes can be one final hurrah, Mike heads to London with a rich socialite (Salma Hayek) who lures him with a proposal he can’t refuse… and an agenda all her personal. With every little thing on the road, as soon as Mike discovers what she really has in thoughts, will he — and the roster of sizzling new dancers he’ll should whip into form — be capable of pull it off? Steven Soderbergh returned to direct from a script by Reid Carolin, who additionally wrote the primary two motion pictures. The sequel will hit theaters on February 10, 2023.

As for David Leitch, he’s at present filming The Fall Man, a feature-film adaptation of the traditional Nineteen Eighties collection of the identical title. Ryan Gosling will star as a “battered and past-his-prime stuntman who finds himself again on a film with the star he labored with way back and who changed him. The issue, nevertheless, is that the star is now lacking.” The movie additionally stars Emily Blunt, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Stephanie Hsu, Winston Duke, and Hannah Waddingham and is ready for a March 1, 2024 launch.