Dave Bautista Sci-Fi Adventure ‘Universe’s Most Wanted’ Acquired by STX
Brad Peyton-directed film seeks to begin production in Melbourne, Australia in JulyBrian Welk | April 14, 2021 @ 10:00 AM
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STXfilms has acquired the rights to “Universe’s Most Wanted,” a sci-fi adventure starring Dave Bautista and directed by “Rampage” filmmaker Brad Peyton.
The film comes from AGC Studios and CAA Media Finance and is currently in pre-production. Filming hopes to begin in Melbourne, Australia in July. STX will release “Universe’s Most Wanted” in the U.S., the UK and India.
In “Universe’s Most Wanted,” a small town gets a big surprise when a spaceship carrying the universe’s most wanted and dangerous criminals crash lands in their backyard. Soon the sheriff and his son become heroes when they find themselves helping an intergalactic peacekeeper (Bautista) to keep the ragtag group of alien prisoners from escaping and taking over the world. F. Scot
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Paul W S Anderson teams with Milla Jovovich, Dave Bautista for In The Lost Lands
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Described as a sprawling epic, the film s story centers around a queen who, desperate to fulfill her love, hires a powerful and feared sorceress known as Gray Alys (played by Jovovich). Alys is sent into the titular Lost Lands with a drifter named Boyce (played by Bautista) as her guide. Together, the two characters must fight off mortals and demons in this fable that explores the nature of good and evil, debt and fulfillment, love and loss, writes Variety.
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Anderson, Jovovich, and Bautista will produce the movie alongside Jeremy Bolt, Jonathan Meisner and Constantin Werner.