Top Gun: Maverick and Anyone But You star Glen Powell has found his next film project, a thriller titled Huntington, which is being written and directed by John Patton Ford, who previously helmed Aubrey Plaza’s Emily The Criminal.
The movie is described to us as a “raucous revenge thriller” about “Becket Redfellow (Powell), the heir to a multi-billion-dollar fortune who will stop at nothing to get what he deserves…Or what he thinks he deserves.”
The movie was inspired by Studiocanal’s 1949 Ealing Comedy library title Kind Hearts and Coronets, starring Alec Guinness. It’s explained that this new film “skews darker than the original caper classic but leans into witty and zingy banter.”
Kind Hearts And Coronets centers around Louis D’Ascoyne Mazzini, the son of a woman disowned by her aristocratic family for marrying out of her social class. After her death, a vengeful Louis decides to take the family’s dukedom by murdering the eight people ahead of him in the line of succession to the title.
John Patton Ford said: “I feel tremendously privileged to make this film with Studiocanal, Blueprint Pictures and Participant. It speaks volumes about these companies that they have chosen to make an original and progressive movie such as this. And Glen Powell is the icing on the cake.”
Euro studio Studiocanal and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri producer Blueprint are producing the project. A24 is also said to be close to finalizing a domestic deal.
Studiocanal CEO Anna Marsh, Ron Halpern and Joe Naftalin added: “All of us at Studiocanal were blown away by John’s film Emily The Criminal at Sundance, and then bowled over by his wildly entertaining screenplay for this project. We have loved working with him on it, and we are so excited to now have cast the extraordinary Glen Powell in the role of Becket. We are thrilled to have partnered on the film with our friends at Participant and delighted to be back in business once again with Pete, Graham and the team at Blueprint Pictures. What a team! It’s going to be a lot of fun.”
The film is looking to start shooting in early summer, and it seems like another great film project for Powell to take on. He will next be seen in Richard Linklater’s upcoming film Hit Man. He is also set to star in Twisters.
